Mackey v. Shalala’s Empirical Analysis
360 F.3d 463 · 2004
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 13 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2025 · most notably Coleman v. Maryland Court of Appeals (2010), Jaramillo v. Colorado Judicial Department (2005)
14 federal appellate · 13 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
Relies on McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green · Reeves v. Sanderson Plumbing Products, Inc. · Evans v. Technologies Applications & Service Co. · Goldberg v. B. Green & Co. · Laughlin v. Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority
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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]ppellants must first establish a prima facie case of discrimination by a preponderance of the evidence.”
3 later decisions 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.