Grey v. City of Oak Grove’s Empirical Analysis
396 F.3d 1031 · 2005
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently July 2020 · most notably Wallace v. DTG Operations, Inc. (2006), Sallis v. University of Minnesota (2005)
20 federal appellate · 1 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 Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green · Clark County School District v. Breeden · Kipp v. Missouri Highway & Transportation Commission · White v. Burlington Northern & Santa Fe Railway Co.
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he question is whether [Defendants'] denials and justifications were a pretext for retaliation, not whether [Plaintiff] actually did what [s]he was accused of doing or whether discharge was warranted.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]t shall be unlawful for any person— (3) to discharge or in any other manner discriminate against any employee because such employee has filed any complaint or instituted or caused to be instituted any proceeding under or related to this chapter, or has testified or is about to testify in any such proceeding, or has served or is about to serve on an industry committee.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The question is whether [APP's] articulated reason[ ] for discharge w[as] a pretext for retaliation, not whether [Logan] actually did what [s]he was accused of doing or whether discharge was warranted.”
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.