Thelen v. Marc's Big Boy Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
64 F.3d 264 · 1995
Citation profile
43 federal appellate · 6 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 85 later decisions — most recently February 2025 · most notably Amini v. Oberlin College (2001), Santa Maria v. Pacific Bell (2000)
43 federal appellate · 6 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 29 U.S.C. § 626 (§ 7 of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967)
Relies on Coastal Steel Corp. v. Wheelabrator-Frye, Inc. · Waller v. Georgia · Cada v. Baxter Healthcare Corp. · Oshiver v. Levin, Fishbein, Sedran & Berman · Posey v. Skyline 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 85 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] plaintiff's action accrues when he discovers that he has been injured, not when he determines that the injury was unlawful.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a fresh 300 days to file his charge once he obtains enough information to suspect discrimination; he must file his charge with the EEOC within a reasonable time.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“really insisting that the limitations clock should be equitably tolled for the time in which he was unable to determine that his injury (of which he was aware) -- the layoff -- was due to wrongdoing.”
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.