Douglas v. Donovan’s Empirical Analysis
559 F.3d 549 · 2009
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 145 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 189 later decisions — most recently June 2022 · most notably Baird v. Gotbaum (2011), Walker v. Johnson (2015)
15 federal appellate · 145 district · 1 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.
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 717 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 703 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964) · 5 U.S.C. § 4507
Relies on Monge v. California · Burlington Industries, Inc. v. Ellerth · Aka v. Washington Hospital Center · Holcomb v. Powell · Tao v. Freeh L
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 189 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“experience[ ] materially adverse consequences affecting the terms, conditions, or privileges of employment or future employment opportunities such that a reasonable trier of fact could find objectively tangible harm.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a significant change in employment status, such as hiring, firing, failing to promote, reassignment with significantly different responsibilities, or a decision causing significant change in benefits.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[N]ot everything that makes an employee unhappy is an actionable adverse action.”
5 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.