588 F. Supp. 994 - Bostic v. Wall’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently November 2004
2 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1981 (Civil Rights Act of 1866) · 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 McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green · Texas Department of Community Affairs v. Burdine · Furnco Construction Corp. v. Waters · Board of Trustees of Keene State College v. Sweeney · Griffin v. United States
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.
““A plaintiff cannot prove that the employer’s reason for his discharge was pretextual merely by claiming that the employer’s action was mistaken. The law is clear that an employer’s reason for his action may be a good reason, a bad reason, a mistaken reason, or no reason at all, as long as the decision was not based on race or other unlawful discrimination criteria.... (cites omitted). An employer is not required to prove that its decision was correct; the tryer of fact need only determine that the defendant, in good faith, believed the plaintiff’s performance to be unsatisfactory and that the asserted reason for the action was not a mere pretext for discrimination, (cites omitted).””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“One recognized exception existing is if the relationship between the named party and the unnamed defendant is that of ... substantially identical parties.”
1 later decision 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.