Hughes v. Bedsole’s Empirical Analysis

48 F.3d 1376 · 1995

Citation profile

251

cited by 251 later decisions

states following

March 2017

most recently cited

31 federal appellate · 21 district · 8 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 251 later decisions — most recently March 2017 · most notably Evans v. Technologies Applications & Service Co. (1996), Smith v. First Union National Bank (2000)

31 federal appellate · 21 district · 8 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. § 701 (Employment Opportunities for Individuals With Disabilities Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 706 · 29 U.S.C. § 794 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1985 · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 701 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)

Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. v. Zenith Radio Corporation · McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green · Texas Department of Community Affairs v. Burdine

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 251 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

“(1) [ ]he is a member of a protected class; (2)[ ]he was qualified for his job and his job performance was satisfactory; (3)[ ]he was fired; and (4) other employees who are not members of the protected class were retained under apparently similar circumstances.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. Frank Wilson, Jr. v. Circuit City Stores, Incorporated · Johnson v. Crossroads Ford, Inc.
“It is the public policy of this State to protect and safeguard the right and opportunity of all persons to seek, obtain and hold employment without discrimination or abridgement on account of race, religion, color, national origin, age, sex or handicap by employers which regularly employ 15 or more employees.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. 106 F. Supp. 2d 799 - Atkins v. USF Dugan, Inc. · 140 F. Supp. 2d 582 - Lenhart v. General Electric Co.
“obligation of the nonmoving party is `particularly strong when the nonmoving party bears the burden of proof.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. 487 F. Supp. 2d 682 - US Ex Rel Lowman v. HILTON HEAD HEALTH SYSTEMS · 377 F. Supp. 2d 511 - STATE FARM MUT. AUTO. INS. CO. v. Boyd

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.