Lucas v. Duncan’s Empirical Analysis
574 F.3d 772 · 2009
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district ·
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 636 · 29 U.S.C. § 621 (§ 2 of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967)
Relies on Cooter & Gell v. Hartmarx Corp. · United States Postal Service Board of Governors v. Aikens · Desert Palace, Inc. v. Costa · Rogers v. Missouri Pacific Railroad · Business Guides, Inc. v. Chromatic Communications Enterprises, Inc.
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Circumstantial evidence is indirect evidence of a fact which is established or logically inferred from a chain of other facts or circumstances.”
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.