544 F. Supp. 2d 1 - Elion v. Jackson’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 21 district · 1 state decisions
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Applies 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 703 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on Connecticut v. Teal · Sprint/United Management Co. v. Mendelsohn · Yeti by Molly Ltd Montana Corporation · Nutrasweet Company v. X-L Engineering Company · Klonoski v. Mahlab
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If a party plans to testily to one version of the facts, and the opponent has evidence supporting a different version of the facts, the opponent's evidence will tend to impeach the party by contradiction, but if discovery of this kind of evidence is not permitted the discovery rules might as well be repealed. Even those who have been most concerned above protecting impeachment material recognize that substantive evidence must be subject to discovery even though it also tends to contradict evidence of the discovering party.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“such evidence is 3 Some of these courts have recognized that, as a logical matter, "[s]ubsequent actions by an employer against co-workers 6 neither per se admissible nor per se inadmissible,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“depends on many factors, including how closely related the evidence is to the plaintiff's circumstances and theory of the case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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