Johnson v. Bunny Bread Co.’s Empirical Analysis
646 F.2d 1250 · 1981
Citation profile
160 federal appellate · 49 district · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 361 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2024 · most notably Burlington Industries, Inc. v. Ellerth (1998), 7 Cal. 4th 1238 - Turner v. Anheuser-Busch, Inc. (1994)
160 federal appellate · 49 district · 29 state decisions — followed in 18 states
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 · McDonald v. Santa Fe Trail Transportation 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 361 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'A constructive discharge exists when an employer deliberately renders the employee's working conditions intolerable ...'”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a reasonable person [in the employee's situation] would find conditions intolerable.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“no steady barrage of opprobrious racial comment”
10 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.