Smith v. Stratus Computer, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
40 F.3d 11 · 1994
Citation profile
67 federal appellate · 127 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 234 later decisions — most recently November 2024 · most notably Holifield v. Reno (1997), Hodgens v. General Dynamics Corp. (1998)
67 federal appellate · 127 district · 12 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
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 206 (Equal Pay Act of 1963) · 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)
Relies on Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green · Texas Department of Community Affairs v. Burdine · St. Mary's Honor Center v. Hicks · Mesnick v. General Electric 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 234 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) [ ]he is a member of a protected class; (2) [ ]he was performing his job at a level that rules out the possibility that he was fired for inadequate job performance; (3) [ ]he suffered an adverse job action by his employer; and (4) [his] employer sought a replacement for [him] with roughly equivalent qualifications.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“performance, qualifications and conduct, 'without such differentiating or mitigating circumstances that would distinguish' their situations.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“When a party fails to make a showing sufficient to establish the existence of an element essential to that party’s case, and on which that party bears the burden of proof at trial, there can no longer be a genuine issue as to any material fact: the failure of proof as to an essential element necessarily renders all other facts immaterial, and the moving party is entitled to judgment as a matter of law.”
3 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.