Clark’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
1 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 81 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably In Re Jose Antonio Rodriguez (2007), 359 F. App'x 562 - Steven Simpson v. The Vanderbilt University (2009)
1 district · 5 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 Harris v. Forklift Systems, Inc. · Faragher v. City of Boca Raton · Smith v. First Union National Bank · Torres v. Pisano · Williams v. General Motors Corp.
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 81 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[O]nce an employer has knowledge of the harassment, the law imposes upon the employer a duty to take reasonable steps to eliminate it.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) she is a member of a protected class, (2) she was subjected to unwelcome sexual harassment, (3) the harassment was based on her sex, (4) the harassment created a hostile work environment, and that”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“requires an inquiry that looks behind the face of the policy to determine whether the policy was effective in practice in reasonably preventing and correcting any harassing behavior.”
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.