Weyers v. Lear Operations Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
359 F.3d 1049 · 2004
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Faragher v. City of Boca Raton · Monge v. California · Burlington Industries, Inc. v. Ellerth · Parkins v. Civil Constructors of Illinois, Inc. · Breeding v. Arthur J. Gallagher & Co.
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]o be considered a supervisor, “the alleged harasser must have had the power (not necessarily exercised) to take tangible employment action against the victim, such as the authority to hire, fire, promote or reassign to significantly different duties.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“apparent authority would be an insufficient basis to support a finding of supervisor status”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“with immediate (or successively higher) authority over the employee”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.