Gehring v. Case Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
43 F.3d 340 · 1994
Citation profile
86 federal appellate · 6 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 145 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably Ryther v. KARE 11 (1997), Perry Coleman (2000)
86 federal appellate · 6 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
Relies on McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green · Texas Department of Community Affairs v. Burdine · St. Mary's Honor Center v. Hicks · United States Postal Service Board of Governors v. Aikens · Hazen Paper Co. v. Biggins
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 145 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“but a judge need not deliver instructions describing all valid legal principles,”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“) and that the defendant has produced an age-neutral explanation, the burden- shifting apparatus has served its purpose, and the only remaining question--the only question the jury need answer--is whether the plaintiff is a victim of intentional discrimination. 69 F.3d 1344 , 1350 (7th Cir. 1995) (quoting Gehring v. Case Corp., 43 F.3d 340 , 343 (7th Cir. 1994)); see also United States Postal Serv. Bd. of Governors v. Aikens, 460 U.S. 711 , 714-15 (”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]t is Plaintiff’s burden to prove by a preponderance of the evidence that he was discharged by the defendant because of his age. In order for you to determine whether Plaintiff was discharged because of his age, you must decide whether Defendant would have fired Plaintiff had he been younger than 40 and everything else had remained the same.”
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.