Faas v. Sears, Roebuck & Co.’s Empirical Analysis
532 F.3d 633 · 2008
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 79 later decisions — most recently February 2020 · most notably Harper v. C.R. England, Inc. (2012), Hanners v. Trent (2012)
29 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 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 Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. v. Zenith Radio Corporation · McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green · Reeves v. Sanderson Plumbing Products, Inc. · Hazen Paper Co. v. Biggins
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 79 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“for the purpose of hiding adverse information.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In order to draw an inference that the [destroyed documents] contained information adverse to Sears, we must find that Sears intentionally destroyed the documents in bad faith.”); Greyhound Lines, Inc. v. Wade, 485 F.3d 1032, 1035 (8th Cir.2007) (”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“for the purpose of hiding adverse information.”
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.