Henry v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
507 F.3d 558 · 2007
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2025 · most notably Ricci v. DeStefano (2009), Coleman v. Donahoe (2012)
14 federal appellate · 1 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 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 703 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green · Harding v. Gray · Burks v. Wisconsin Department of Transportation · Mills v. Health Care Service Corp. · Lewis v. City of Chicago
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“enough common factors...to allow for a meaningful comparison in order to divine whether intentional discrimination was at play.”
1 later decision 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.