Buchanan v. Sherrill’s Empirical Analysis
51 F.3d 227 · 1995
Citation profile
32 federal appellate · 22 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 88 later decisions — most recently December 2020 · most notably Adler v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (1998), Elizabeth Perry v. Judy Woodward the Board of County Commissioners of the County of Bernalillo (1999)
32 federal appellate · 22 district · 4 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 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 701 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Lujan v. National Wildlife Federation · Saxton v. American Telephone & Telegraph Co. · Burk v. K-Mart Corp. · White v. American Airlines, Inc.
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 88 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“no genuine issue as to any material fact”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'Constructive discharge occurs when an employer deliberately makes or allows the employee's working conditions to become so intolerable that the employee has no choice but to quit.... The test is whether a reasonable person would view the working conditions as intolerable and would feel compelled to resign.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Constructive discharge is now a recognized cause of action in Oklahoma, at least when the plaintiff's employment has terminated.”
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.