Atkinson v. Lafayette College’s Empirical Analysis
460 F.3d 447 · 2006
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 5 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 108 later decisions — most recently May 2024 · most notably Burton v. Teleflex Inc. (2013), El v. Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority ("SEPTA") (2007)
14 federal appellate · 5 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 McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green · Alexander v. Sandoval · Fuentes v. Perskie · Jackson v. Birmingham Board of Education · Mellon Bank, N.A. v. Aetna Business Credit, 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 108 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Claims under the PHRA are interpreted coextensively with Title VII claims.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]his basic framework under Title VII illustrates that, to defeat summary judgment when the defendant answers the plaintiffs prima facie case with legitimate, non-discriminatory reasons for its action, the plaintiff must point to some evidence, direct or circumstantial, from which a factfinder could reasonably either (1) disbelieve the employer’s articulated legitimate reasons; or (2) believe that an invidious discriminatory reason was more likely than not a motivating or determinative cause of the adverse employment action.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he District Court correctly found that Atkinson failed to point to any evidence that demonstrated weaknesses, implausibilities, inconsistencies, incoherencies or contradictions in Lafayette College’s reasons for its employment decisions. A reasonable jury could not find that Atkinson’s gender played a role in the decisions at issue.” Atkinson, 460 F.3d 447, 455 (3d Cir.2006). Defendant now contends Plaintiff’s inability to show pretext earlier is”
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.