Page v. Bolger’s Empirical Analysis
645 F.2d 227 · 1981
Citation profile
74 federal appellate · 60 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 268 later decisions — most recently August 2023 · most notably Regina C. Brown, v. Kenneth D. Brody, Chairman, Export-Import Bank of the United States, (1999), Smith v. First Union National Bank (2000)
74 federal appellate · 60 district · 3 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 · Texas Department of Community Affairs v. Burdine · International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. United States · Furnco Construction Corp. v. Waters · Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee v. McGrath
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 268 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“has consistently focused on the question whether there has been discrimination in what could be characterized as ultimate employment decisions such as hiring, granting leave, discharging, promoting, and compensating.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]t is obvious to us that there are many interlocutory or mediate decisions having no immediate effect upon employment conditions which were not intended to fall within the direct proscriptions ofs 717 and comparable provisions of Title VII”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the mere fact that subjective criteria are involved in the reason articulated by an employer does not prevent according it sufficient rebuttal weight to dispel the inference of discrimination raised by the prima facie case.”
7 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.