Polstorff v. Fletcher’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently September 2008
2 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
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 621 (§ 2 of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 701 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green · Thor C. LAUGESEN, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. the ANACONDA COMPANY, Defendant-Appellee · Marshall v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. · Price v. Maryland Casualty Co. · 4 Fair empl.prac.cas. 269, 4 Empl. Prac. Dec. P 7629 James D. Hodgson, Secretary of Labor, United States Department of Labor v. First Federal Savings and Loan Association of Broward County, Florida
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The ADEA protects individuals from age discrimination. A 62-year-old is entitled to protection against being replaced by a 42-year-old if the only factor is age. There is no “protected group” in exactly the same sense as in sex, race or similar cases, although there is a “protected group” in a somewhat different sense.”
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.