Lara v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions — most recently September 2017 · most notably Lockhart v. Cedar Rapids Community School District (1997), Gibson v. ITT Hartford Ins. Co. (2001)
5 federal appellate · 34 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. § 206 (Equal Pay Act of 1963) · 29 U.S.C. § 216
Relies on Hensley v. Eckerhart · Corning Glass Works v. Brennan · Tennessee v. Middlebrooks · Vinson v. Linn-Mar Community School District · Springer v. Weeks and Leo Co., 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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] qualified or conditionally privileged communication is one made in good faith on any subject matter in which the person communicating has an interest, or in reference to which that person has a right or duty, if made to a person having a corresponding interest or duty in a manner and under circumstances fairly warranted by the occasion.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The law of defamation consists of the twin torts of libel and slander. W. Page Keeton, Prosser and Keeton on the Law of Torts § 111, at 771 (5th ed. 1984) [herein after Prosser & Keeton]. The gist of an action for libel or slander is the publication of written or oral statements which tend to injure a person’s reputation and good name. Id. at 773. Slander generally consists of the oral publication of defamatory matter. See Restatement (Second) of Torts § 568 (1976).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Employers cannot be permitted to intimidate employees into foregoing the benefits to which they are entitled in order to keep their jobs. To hold otherwise in this context would create a chilling effect by permitting an employer to indirectly force an employee to give up certain statutory rights.”
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.