Mereish v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
359 F.3d 330 · 2004
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 9 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 87 later decisions — most recently June 2023 · most notably Price v. Thompson (2004), Warch v. Ohio Casualty Insurance (2006)
10 federal appellate · 9 district · 1 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green · Texas Department of Community Affairs v. Burdine · Reeves v. Sanderson Plumbing Products, Inc. · Price Waterhouse v. Hopkins
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 87 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“explanation is 'unworthy of credence' or by offering other forms of circumstantial evidence sufficiently probative of age discrimination.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“because it is a stray remark which merely reflects a fact of life); EEOC v. Clay Printing Co. , 955 F.2d 936 , 942-43 (4th Cir. 1992) (holding that references to the need to”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“general or ambiguous remarks referring to the process of generational change create no triable issue of age discrimination”
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.