Brenner v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
36 F.3d 18 · 1994
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently August 2014 · most notably McKenzie v. Illinois Department of Transportation (1996), Johnson v. City of Fort Wayne (1996)
29 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 621 (§ 2 of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 704 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green · Anderson v. City of Bessemer City · Connick v. Myers · Waters v. Churchill · Old Dominion Branch No. 496 v. Austin
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]n employee's speech is not protected where it is ... made with a reckless disregard for the truth, or is otherwise profane and disparaging.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) she engaged in statutorily protected expression; (2) she suffered an adverse action by her employer; and (3) there is a causal link between the protected expression and the adverse action.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“will not overturn the district court's findings concerning discrimination and claims of retaliation unless those findings are clearly erroneous”
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.