Plotke v. White’s Empirical Analysis
405 F.3d 1092 · 2005
Citation profile
38 federal appellate · 39 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 136 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably Garrison v. Gambro, Inc. (2005), Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. PVNF, L.L.C. (2007)
38 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 · Texas Department of Community Affairs v. Burdine · Reeves v. Sanderson Plumbing Products, Inc. · St. Mary's Honor Center v. Hicks · International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. United States
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 136 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“McDonnell Douglas first requires the aggrieved employee to establish a prima facie case of prohibited employment action .... If the employee makes a prima facie showing, the burden shifts to the defendant employer to state a legitimate, nondiscriminatory reason for its adverse employment action. If the employer meets this burden, then summary judgment is warranted unless the employee can show there is a genuine issue of material fact as to whether the proffered reasons are pretextual.”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a pattern of recommending the plaintiff for positions for which she is not qualified [or over-qualified],”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) with evidence that the defendant’s stated reason for the adverse employment action was false, (2) with evidence that the defendant acted contrary to a written company policy prescribing the action to be taken by the defendant under the circumstances, or (3) with evidence that the defendant acted contrary to an unwritten policy or contrary to company practice when making the adverse employment decision affecting the plaintiff.”
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.