Holcomb v. Powell’s Empirical Analysis
433 F.3d 889 · 2006
Citation profile
46 federal appellate · 646 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 805 later decisions — most recently June 2022 · most notably Brady v. Office of the Sergeant at Arms (2008), Jones v. Bernanke (2009)
46 federal appellate · 646 district · 7 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 Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green · Reeves v. Sanderson Plumbing Products, Inc. · St. Mary's Honor Center v. Hicks
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 805 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the movant shows that there is no genuine dispute as to any material fact and the movant is entitled to judgment as a matter of law.”
37 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“if the evidence is such that a reasonable jury could return a verdict for the non-moving party. See Scott v. Harris , 550 U.S. 372 , 380, 127 S.Ct. 1769 , 167 L.Ed.2d 686 (2007) ; Liberty Lobby , 477 U.S. at 248 , 106 S.Ct. 2505 ; Holcomb , 433 F.3d at 895 .”
25 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“any combination of (1) evidence establishing the plaintiffs prima facie case; (2) evidence the plaintiff presents to attack the employer’s proffered explanation for its actions; and (3) any further evidence of discrimination that may be available to the plaintiff, such as independent evidence of discriminatory statements or attitudes on the part of the employer.”
15 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.