Fox v. Eagle Distributing Co.’s Empirical Analysis
510 F.3d 587 · 2007
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 2 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently February 2025 · most notably Spengler v. Worthington Cylinders (2010), Blizzard v. Marion Technical College (2012)
5 federal appellate · 2 district · 6 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. § 621 (§ 2 of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967) · 29 U.S.C. § 623 (§ 4 of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967)
Relies on Booker v. Brown & Williamson Tobacco Co. · Johnson v. University of Cincinnati · Wathen v. General Electric Co. · Barber v. CSX Distribution Services · Love v. Re/Max of America, 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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a vague charge of discrimination in an internal letter or memorandum is insufficient to constitute opposition to an unlawful employment practice. An employee may not invoke the protections of the Act by making a vague charge of discrimination. Otherwise, every adverse employment decision by an employer would be subject to challenge under either state or federal civil rights legislation simply by an employee inserting a charge of discrimination.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“an employee need not file a formal EEOC complaint to engage in protected activity - rather 'it is the assertion of statutory rights' that triggers protection under the ADEA's anti-retaliation provision.”
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.