Baker v. John Morrell & Co.’s Empirical Analysis
382 F.3d 816 · 2004
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently August 2023 · most notably Wright v. Rolette County (2005), Devin v. Schwan's Home Service, Inc. (2007)
23 federal appellate · 5 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 Harris v. Forklift Systems, Inc. · Quick v. Donaldson Co. · Johnson v. Bunny Bread Co. · Harlston v. McDonnell Douglas Corp. · Smith v. St. Louis University
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Constructive discharge occurs when an employer deliberately renders the employee's working conditions intolerable, thereby forcing her to quit.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) he belongs to a protected group; (2) he was subject to unwelcome harassment; (3) a casual nexus exists between the harassment and the protected group status; (4) the harassment affected a term, condition, or privilege of employment; and (5) his employer knew or should have known of the harassment and failed to take proper action.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The conduct complained of must have been severe or pervasive enough to create an objectively hostile or abusive work environment, and additionally the plaintiff must subjectively perceive the environment to be abusive.”
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.