Smith v. Flax’s Empirical Analysis
618 F.2d 1062 · 1980
Citation profile
77 federal appellate · 28 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 218 later decisions — most recently February 2023 · most notably Chapman v. AI Transport (2000), Evans v. Technologies Applications & Service Co. (1996)
77 federal appellate · 28 district · 7 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
Relies on McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green · Board of Trustees of Keene State College v. Sweeney · Loeb v. Textron, Inc. · Marshall v. Westinghouse Electric 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 218 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[The employee's] perception of himself, however, is not relevant. It is the perception of the decision maker which is relevant.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage“future realization of the potential of an enterprise lies principally with those who will be in positions of leadership and responsibility in the future”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Such a prima facie showing [by the employee-plaintiff] is rebutted if the employer shows a legitimate non-discriminatory reason for the employee’s discharge, [citations] After the employer has come forward with such evidence, the ultimate burden of persuasion remains upon the plaintiff to show that age was a determining factor in his discharge.”
2 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.