Hamilton v. Geithner’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

16 federal appellate · 143 district · 1 state decisions

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 208 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “(1) the plaintiff's prima facie case; (2) any evidence the plaintiff presents to attack the employer's proffered explanation for its actions; and (3) any further evidence of discrimination that may be available to the plaintiff (such as independent evidence of discriminatory statements or attitudes on the part of the employer).”

   6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Markowicz v. Nielsen · Clayton v. Dist. of Columbia

2. “by providing enough evidence for a reasonable jury to find that the employer's proffered explanation was a pretext for retaliation or discrimination.”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Hicks v. Dist. of Columbia · Walker v. Mattis

3. “[t]his Circuit has held ... that when an inference of causation is premised on temporal proximity alone, even an eight to nine month gap between the protected activity and the adverse employment action is too great to establish an inference of causation.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Furey v. Mnuchin · Oviedo v. Wmata