Stover v. Martinez’s Empirical Analysis
382 F.3d 1064 · 2004
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 39 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 124 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably Mackenzie v. Denver City and County of (2005), Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. C.R. England, Inc. (2011)
23 federal appellate · 39 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.
Relationships
Relies on McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green · Monge v. California · Burlington Industries, Inc. v. Ellerth · Simms v. Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services · Kendrick v. Penske Transportation Services, Inc.
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 124 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he evidence and reasonable inferences drawn from the evidence are viewed in the light most favorable to the nonmoving party.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“An employee may demonstrate pretext by showing the employer's proffered reason was so inconsistent, implausible, incoherent, or contradictory that it is unworthy of belief.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It shall be an unlawful employment practice for an employer ... to discriminate against any individual ... because he has opposed any practice made an unlawful employment practice by this subchapter, or because he has made a charge, testified, assisted, or participated in any manner in an investigation, proceeding, or hearing under this sub-chapter.”
2 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.