Burks v. Wisconsin Department of Transportation’s Empirical Analysis
464 F.3d 744 · 2006
Citation profile
59 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 168 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably Coleman v. Donahoe (2012), Argyropoulos v. City of Alton (2008)
59 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 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 · Burlington Northern & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. White · Karen Sutton Kimberly Hintons v. United Air Lines Inc · Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Kentucky, Inc. v. Williams · Fitzpatrick v. City of Atlanta
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 168 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Such vague claims of difficulty standing or sitting for `extended periods of time' were found not to create a material issue of fact by the Eleventh Circuit because the impairments were `couched in vague terms and unaccompanied by any evidence that the described afflictions were any worse than is suffered by many adults.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) [ ] he engaged in protected activity; (2) that [ ] he was subject to an adverse employment action; (3) that []he was performing [his] job satisfactorily; and (4) that no similarly situated employee who did not engage in protected activity suffered an adverse employment action.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) [he] is a member of a protected class; (2) [his] job performance met [the FBI's] legitimate expectations; (3) [he] suffered an adverse employment action; and (4) another similarly situated individual who was not in the protected class was treated more favorably.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Khowaja v. Sessions
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.