Patricia Fuller v. City of Oakland, California George Hart Antonio Romero’s Empirical Analysis
47 F.3d 1522 · 1995
Citation profile
100 federal appellate · 42 district · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 262 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably Torres v. Pisano (1997), Brooks v. City of San Mateo (2000)
100 federal appellate · 42 district · 17 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 701 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 703 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Harris v. Forklift Systems, Inc. · Meritor Savings Bank, FSB v. Vinson
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 262 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] female plaintiff states a prima facie case of hostile environment sexual harassment when she alleges conduct which a reasonable woman would consider sufficiently severe or pervasive to alter the conditions of employment and create an abusive working environment.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a]n employer whose sole action is to conclude that no harassment has occurred cannot in any meaningful sense be said to have 'remedied' what happened. Denial does not constitute a remedy.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]hether the workplace is objectively hostile must be determined from the perspective of a reasonable person with the same fundamental characteristics.”
4 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.