Douglas v. Anderson’s Empirical Analysis
656 F.2d 528 · 1981
Citation profile
119 federal appellate · 23 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 210 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably 24 Cal. 4th 317 - Guz v. Bechtel National, Inc. (2000), Carter v. City of Miami (1989)
119 federal appellate · 23 district · 10 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 29 U.S.C. § 623 (§ 4 of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967) · 29 U.S.C. § 631 (§ 12 of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967)
Relies on McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green · Texas Department of Community Affairs v. Burdine · Griggs v. Duke Power Co. · Loeb v. Textron, Inc. · Kephart v. Institute of Gas Technology
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 210 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'under circumstances which give rise to an inference of unlawful discrimination.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he focus of the inquiry [is] not a determination of whether [Young] was.in fact performing his job adequately, but rather, whether there was sufficient evidence of unsatisfactory performance to be a legitimate concern of [General Foods and] whether this was the real reason for termination, and not a pretext for age discrimination.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Although summary procedures should be used prudently, 'particularly in cases involving issues of motivation or intent' in ADEA claims, such relief may nonetheless be appropriate.”
3 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.