Benton v. Kroger Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently October 2009
2 federal appellate · 1 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 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 701 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 706 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green · San Diego Building Trades Council v. Garmon · Allis-Chalmers Corp. v. Lueck · Smith v. Harmsen · Fitzgerald v. United States Lines 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]lleged incidents of sexual harassment or gender bias were entirely separate from the circumstances surrounding plaintiff's back injury. These separate events can hardly be grouped as the 'common nucleus of operative facts....'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lyon v. Whisman
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.