Byrd v. Ronayne’s Empirical Analysis
61 F.3d 1026 · 1995
Citation profile
32 federal appellate · 27 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably Ercegovich v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. (1998), Fisher v. Vassar College (1997)
32 federal appellate · 27 district · 2 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 28 U.S.C. § 1367 · 29 U.S.C. § 206 (Equal Pay Act of 1963) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 701 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 · St. Mary's Honor Center v. Hicks · Corning Glass Works v. Brennan · Mesnick v. General Electric 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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A disparate treatment claimant bears the burden of proving that she was subjected to different treatment than persons similarly situated in all relevant aspects.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“an employer pays different wages to employees of opposite sexes for equal work on jobs the performance of which requires equal skill, effort, and responsibility, and which are performed under similar working conditions.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“in terms of performance, qualifications and conduct, 'without [] differentiating or mitigating circumstances that would distinguish' their situations.”
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.