Barnes v. Costle’s Empirical Analysis
561 F.2d 983 · 1977
Citation profile
88 federal appellate · 38 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 207 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2020 · most notably Burlington Industries, Inc. v. Ellerth (1998), Henson v. City of Dundee (1982)
88 federal appellate · 38 district · 14 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
Relies on McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green · Griggs v. Duke Power Co. · Udall v. Tallman · Albemarle Paper Co. v. Moody · Sibron v. State of New York Peters
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 207 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“became target of her superior's sexual desires because she was a woman.... [N]o male employee was susceptible to such an approach”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(i)t shall be an unlawful employment practice for an employer . . . to discriminate against Any individual”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“by a homosexual superior of the same gender.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.