Copeland v. Rosen’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 3 district ·
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 701 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 703 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 704 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green · Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. · Haines v. Kerner
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There are a variety of plausible explanations of such ‘hire-fire’ conduct that may support an inference of discriminatory animus. For example, it is plausible that a supervisor who has not previously worked with members of a certain protected class would come to realize his or her animus toward individuals in that group only upon actually hiring and working with such persons.” Id. . Plaintiff has conceded that Post was forced to lay off employees for economic reasons. To the extent that he attributes his termination to”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he 'same actor' inference is not a necessary inference, it is only a plausible one, and decisions in this Circuit addressing it have warned that its use is not to become a substitute for a fact-intensive inquiry into the particular circumstances of the case at hand.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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