Arrieta-Colon v. Wal-Mart Puerto Rico, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
434 F.3d 75 · 2006
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 20 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently February 2021 · most notably Valentín-Almeyda v. Municipality of Aguadilla (2006), Gerald v. University of Puerto Rico (2013)
17 federal appellate · 20 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 Faragher v. City of Boca Raton · Monge v. California · Karen Sutton Kimberly Hintons v. United Air Lines Inc · Bragdon v. Abbott · Burlington Industries, Inc. v. Ellerth
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he employer bears the burden of proof as to both elements.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]here the evidence shows that the defendant cannot prove an affirmative defense under the Faragher standard, there is no reason to remand for the giving of a Faragher instruction.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“two necessary elements: (a) that the employer exercised reasonable care to prevent and correct promptly any ... harassing behavior, and (b)that the plaintiff employee unreasonably failed to take advantage of any preventive or corrective opportunities provided by the employer or to avoid harm otherwise.”
1 later decision 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.