Stephens v. Erickson’s Empirical Analysis
569 F.3d 779 · 2009
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 119 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably Talavera v. Shah (2011), Silverman v. Board of Education (2011)
27 federal appellate · 1 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. § 1981 (Civil Rights Act of 1866) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 704 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Burlington Northern & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. White · Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Services, Inc. · Robinson v. Shell Oil Co.
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 119 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[f]ederal law protects an employee only from retaliation that produces an injury”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“must point to specific facts showing that there is a genuine issue for trial, and inferences relying on mere speculation or conjecture will not suffice.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“We review de novo the grant of summary judgment, and we construe all facts in the light most favorable to ... the nonmoving party,”
2 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.