Woodruff v. Peters’s Empirical Analysis
482 F.3d 521 · 2007
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 158 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 212 later decisions — most recently July 2020 · most notably Jones v. Bernanke (2009), Hamilton v. Geithner (2012)
21 federal appellate · 158 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 · Reeves v. Sanderson Plumbing Products, Inc. · Singleton v. Wulff · Clark County School District v. Breeden · Yee v. City of Escondido
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 212 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“there was a causal link between the protected activity and the adverse action.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Temporal proximity can indeed support an inference of causation, but only where the two events are very close in time.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[o]nce an employer has put forth legitimate, non-retaliatory reasons for [the] challenged action[s], 'positive evidence beyond mere proximity is required to defeat the presumption that the proffered explanations are genuine.'”
3 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.