Johnson v. Uncle Ben's, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
657 F.2d 750 · 1981
Citation profile
54 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 88 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2008 · most notably Wards Cove Packing Co. v. Atonio (1989), Henson v. City of Dundee (1982)
54 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 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 · Griggs v. Duke Power Co. · Furnco Construction Corp. v. Waters
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 88 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ '[Establishing a prima facie case of disparate treatment is not onerous.’ Burdine, 450 U.S. at 253 , 101 S.Ct. at 1094 . In making a prima facie case in a disparate impact suit, however, the plaintiff must not merely prove circumstances raising an inference of discriminatory impact; he must prove the discriminatory impact at issue.””
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Knowledge of a legitimate business reason is uniquely available to the employer who is ... required to persuade the court of its existence by a preponderance of the evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“While Burdine thus affects the burdens of the parties in Title VII disparate treatment cases, it does not address Title VII disparate impact cases,”
1 later decision 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.