Elmore v. Capstan, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
58 F.3d 525 · 1995
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 43 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 88 later decisions — most recently April 2021 · most notably Kendrick v. Penske Transportation Services, Inc. (2000), Aramburu v. Boeing Co. (1997)
28 federal appellate · 43 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 29 U.S.C. § 621 (§ 2 of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 703 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green · Texas Department of Community Affairs v. Burdine · Anderson v. City of Bessemer City · International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. United States · Cooter & Gell v. Hartmarx Corp.
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 88 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Under this standard, we may uphold any determination falling within a broad range of permissible conclusions. Where there are two permissible views of the evidence, the factfinder's choice between them cannot be clearly erroneous. A finding of fact is clearly erroneous if it is without factual support in the record or if, after reviewing all the evidence, [this court] is left with the definite and firm conviction that a mistake has been made.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“When comparing the relative treatment of similarly situated minority and non-minority employees, the comparison need not be based on identical violations of identical work rules; the violations need only be of 'comparable seriousness.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“we are left with the single overarching issue whether plaintiff adduced sufficient evidence to warrant [the court's] determination that adverse employment action was taken against him on the basis of [race].”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.