Chadwick v. WellPoint, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
561 F.3d 38 · 2009
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 23 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently November 2024 · most notably Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Boh Bros. Construction Co. (2013), Taylor v. American Chemistry Council (2009)
10 federal appellate · 23 district · 4 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 (§ 701 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)
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green · Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc. · Reeves v. Sanderson Plumbing Products, Inc. · Price Waterhouse v. Hopkins
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the evidence is such that a reasonable jury could return a verdict for the nonmoving party.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]t is undoubtably true that if the work performance of a woman (or a man, for that matter) actually suffers due to childcare responsibilities (or due to any other personal obligation or interest), an employer is free to respond accordingly, at least without incurring liability under Title VII. However, an employer is not free to assume that a woman, because she is a woman, will necessarily be a poor worker because of family responsibilities.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“plaintiffs must present enough evidence to permit a finding that there was differential treatment in an employment action and that the adverse employment decision was caused at least in part by a forbidden type of bias.” Chadwick, 561 F.3d at 45 (internal citation and quotation omitted). 10 . The Court also recognizes the difficulty plaintiffs in”
1 later decision 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.