McQuillen v. Wisconsin Education Association Council Et Al.’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
66 federal appellate · 18 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 204 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2013 · most notably Price Waterhouse v. Hopkins (1989), Cerrato v. San Francisco Community College District (1994)
66 federal appellate · 18 district · 16 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. § 2000E (§ 701 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on Carnegie v. United States · Gregory Lumber Co. v. United States · Cryts v. French · City of Long Beach v. Southwest Aircraft Services, Inc. · Carnegie v. United States
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 204 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]t is not enough for an employee to show that an employer harbored some discriminatory motivation. Rather, the employee must establish that the discriminatory motivation was a determining factor in the challenged employment decision in that the employee would have received the job absent the discriminatory motivation.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.