Welch v. Chao’s Empirical Analysis
536 F.3d 269 · 2008
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently August 2023 · most notably Van Asdale v. International Game Technology (2009), Wiest v. Lynch (2013)
15 federal appellate · 5 district ·
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 18 U.S.C. § 1514A (§ 806 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002) · 42 U.S.C. § 5851 · 49 U.S.C. § 42121 · 5 U.S.C. § 706
Relies on Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · United States v. Mead Corp. · Jordan v. Alternative Resources Corp. · Bechtel Construction Company v. Secretary of Labor · Allen v. Administrative Review Bd.
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“any conduct which the employee reasonably believes constitutes a violation of section 1341, 1343, 1344, or 1348, any rule or regulation of the Securities and Exchange Commission, or any provision of Federal law relating to fraud against shareholders^]”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A]n employee bears the initial burden of making a prima facie showing of retaliatory discrimination; the burden then shifts to the employer to rebut the employee’s prima facie case by demonstrating by clear and convincing evidence that the employer would have taken the same personnel action in the absence of the protected activity.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a reasonable person in his position would have believed that the conduct constituted a violation.”
3 later decisions 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.