Bennett v. Saint-Gobain Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
507 F.3d 23 · 2007
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 53 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 89 later decisions — most recently November 2024 · most notably Ahern v. Shinseki (2010), Thompson v. Coca-Cola Co. (2008)
23 federal appellate · 53 district · 1 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. § 623 (§ 4 of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967)
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green · General Electric Co. v. Joiner · United States v. Zannino · Mesnick v. General Electric Co.
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 89 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[C]onjecture cannot take the place of proof in the summary judgment calculus.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Actionable discrimination cannot exist in a vacuum. Rather, the discriminatory intent of which [an employee] complains must be traceable to the person or persons who made the decision to fire [her]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“When assessing a claim of pretext in an employment discrimination case, an inquiring court must focus on the motivations and perceptions of the actual decisionmaker.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.