Price v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
380 F.3d 209 · 2004
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 34 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 162 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably Holland v. Washington Homes, Inc. (2007), Constantine v. Rectors and Visitors of George Mason University (2005)
12 federal appellate · 34 district · 2 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 McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green · Texas Department of Community Affairs v. Burdine · Reeves v. Sanderson Plumbing Products, Inc. · St. Mary's Honor Center v. Hicks · Clark County School District v. Breeden
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 162 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a plaintiff's prima facie case, combined with sufficient evidence to find that the employer's asserted justification is false, may permit the trier of fact to conclude that the employer unlawfully discriminated.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the probative value of the proof that the employer's explanation is false.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“would be hard-pressed to conclude that this established pretext.”
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.