Burlington Northern & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. White’s Empirical Analysis
548 U.S. 53 · 2006
Citation profile
1,103 federal appellate · 2,060 district · 283 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8,530 later decisions (27 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2026 · most notably 133 S. Ct. 2517 - University of Tex. Southwestern Medical Center v. Nassar (2013), CBOCS West, Inc. v. Humphries (2008)
1,103 federal appellate · 2,060 district · 283 state decisions — followed in 30 states
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 158 (§ 8 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 42 U.S.C. § 1981A · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 703 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 704 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 706 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green · Reeves v. Sanderson Plumbing Products, Inc. · Harris v. Forklift Systems, Inc. · Hishon v. King & Spalding · Faragher v. City of Boca Raton
Cited together with McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green · Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Harris v. Forklift Systems, Inc. · Faragher v. City of Boca Raton
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 8,530 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“well might have dissuaded a reasonable worker from making or supporting a charge of discrimination.”
207 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“is not limited to discriminatory actions that affect the terms and conditions of employment.”
81 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“dissuade[ ] a reasonable worker from making or supporting a charge of discrimination.”
69 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.