Richardson v. Sugg’s Empirical Analysis
448 F.3d 1046 · 2006
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently July 2023 · most notably King v. United States (2009), Morgan v. Ag Edwards & Sons Inc (2007)
21 federal appellate · 4 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 Pickering v. Board of Education of Township High School District 205 Will County Illinois · Connick v. Myers · Price Waterhouse v. Hopkins · Alexander v. Gardner-Denver Co. · Mitsubishi Motors Corporation v. Soler Chrysler-Plymouth Inc Soler Chrysler-Plymouth Inc
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“provides that 'an employer cannot shield itself from liability for unlawful termination by using a purportedly independent person or committee as the decisionmaker where the decisionmaker merely serves as the conduit, vehicle, or rubber stamp by which another achieves his or her unlawful design.' ” (quoting Dedmon v. Staley, 315 F.3d 948 , 949 n. 2 (8th Cir.2003))). The situation with Eppard is not so much a”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A district court's choice between two permissible views of evidence cannot be clearly erroneous.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“must be strong enough to show a specific link between the [alleged] discriminatory animus and the challenged decision, sufficient to support a finding by a reasonable fact finder that an illegitimate criterion actually motivated the employment decision,”
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.