Heaton v. Weitz Co.’s Empirical Analysis
534 F.3d 882 · 2008
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 2 district ·
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1981A · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 704 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on Hensley v. Eckerhart · City of Riverside v. Rivera · Kim v. Nash Finch Company · Ogden v. Wax Works, Inc. · Hite v. Vermeer Manufacturing Co.
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he passage of time between events does not by itself foreclose a claim of retaliation; rather, it weakens the inference of retaliation that arises when a retaliatory act occurs shortly after a complaint.”
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.