Chappell-Johnson v. Powell’s Empirical Analysis
440 F.3d 484 · 2006
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 62 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 86 later decisions — most recently July 2020 · most notably Brady v. Office of the Sergeant at Arms (2008), Judicial Watch, Inc. v. Food & Drug Administration (2006)
13 federal appellate · 62 district ·
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 · Swierkiewicz v. Sorema N. A. · Koon v. United States · Furnco Construction Corp. v. Waters
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 86 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the plaintiff meets this burden, '[t]he burden then must shift to the employer to articulate some legitimate, nondiscriminatory reason' for its action. If the employer succeeds, then the plaintiff must 'be afforded a fair opportunity to show that [the employer's] stated reason ... was in fact pretext' for unlawful discrimination.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) [the plaintiff] is a member of a protected class; (2) she suffered an adverse employment action; and (3) the unfavorable action gives rise to an inference of discrimination.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“`[l]ittle turns . . . on whether we label review of this particular question abuse of discretion or de novo, ' for `[a] district court by definition abuses its discretion when it makes an error of law.'”
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.