Stavropoulos v. Firestone’s Empirical Analysis
361 F.3d 610 · 2004
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2021 · most notably Crawford v. Carroll (2008), Bennett v. Hendrix (2005)
12 federal appellate · 4 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Relies on Bonner v. City of Prichard · Duncan v. Walker · SAUCIER v. KATZ Et Al. · Rutan v. Republican Party of Illinois · Laird v. Tatum
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the- district court committed no error by applying Title VII standards of what is an adverse employment action to [the plaintiffs] First Amendment retaliation claim”). See also Breaux v. City of Garland, 205 F.3d 150, 157 (5th Cir.2000)(explaining that, in this First Amendment retaliation context, the Fifth Circuit”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“not explicitly equated [the First Amendment retaliation's adverse employment action] element with Title VII's adverse employment action requirement, [the Eleventh Circuit] regularly draw[s] cases applying this rule to inform our analysis of Title VII retaliation claims.... This is because the standards are consonant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“has declined to expand the list of actionable actions [beyond discharges, demotions, refusals to hire, refusals to promote, and reprimands] ... to ensure that § 1983 does not enmesh federal courts in relatively trial matters.”
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.