Weahkee v. Perry’s Empirical Analysis
587 F.2d 1256 · 1978
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2011 · most notably United States v. Raddatz (1980), Smith v. University of North Carolina (1980)
15 federal appellate · 3 district ·
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 · Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. · Consolo v. Federal Maritime Commission · Brown v. General Services Administration · Chandler v. Roudebush
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is elementary that summary judgment is granted properly only where no material fact is genuinely in dispute and only if the movant is entitled to judgment as a matter of law. ... In this case Weahkee bore the initial burden to present a prima facie case of discrimination.”
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.