Massey v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
457 F.3d 711 · 2006
Citation profile
25 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 97 later decisions — most recently November 2024 · most notably Nagle v. Village of Calumet Park (2009), Cady v. Sheahan (2006)
25 federal appellate ·
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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Reeves v. Sanderson Plumbing Products, Inc. · Mt. Healthy City School District Board of Education v. Doyle · Pickering v. Board of Education of Township High School District 205 Will County Illinois · Garcetti v. Ceballos
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 97 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“summary judgment should be granted when, in light of the defendant's unrebutted evidence, 'the court can say without reservation that a reasonable finder of fact would be compelled to credit the employer's case on this point.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“At the summary judgment stage, this means a plaintiff must produce evidence upon which a rational finder of fact could infer that the defendant's proffered reason is a lie.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the persuasiveness of an employer's non-retaliatory explanation ... is 'for the finder of fact to assess.'”
2 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.