Gomez-Perez v. Potter’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
113 federal appellate · 81 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 377 later decisions (17 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2025 · most notably 133 S. Ct. 2517 - University of Tex. Southwestern Medical Center v. Nassar (2013), Jones v. Bernanke (2009)
113 federal appellate · 81 district · 6 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedGómez-Pérez v. Potter (from First Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 20 U.S.C. § 1681 (§ 901 of the Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972) · 29 U.S.C. § 215 · 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) · 29 U.S.C. § 630 (§ 11 of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967) · 29 U.S.C. § 633A (§ 15 of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967) · 2 U.S.C. § 1311 · 2 U.S.C. § 1317
Relies on Burlington Northern & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. White · Lindh v. Murphy · Cannon v. University of Chicago · United States v. Mitchell · Russello v. United States
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 377 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“No order of the court shall require the admission or reinstatement of an individual as a member of a union, or the hiring, reinstatement, or promotion of an individual as an employee, or the payment to him of any back pay, if such individual was refused admission, suspended, or expelled, or was refused employment or advancement or was suspended or discharged for any reason other than discrimination on account of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin or in violation of section 2000e-3(a) of this title.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“for an employer to discriminate against any of his employees or applicants for employment ... because such individual ... has opposed any practice made unlawful by this section, or because such individual ... has made a charge, testified, or participated in any manner in an investigation, proceeding, or litigation under this chapter.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“patterned directly after Title VII's federal-sector discrimination ban,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.