Skelton v. Action’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
16 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently September 2008
16 district ·
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. § 633A (§ 15 of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967)
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green · Texas Department of Community Affairs v. Burdine · United States Postal Service Board of Governors v. Aikens · Poland v. Arizona
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In an age discrimination case, the Court’s teachings mean that, once the defendant has moved for summary judgment by producing evidence that there existed legitimate, nondiscriminatory reasons for the plaintiffs nonselection, the plaintiff must then demonstrate the existence of material facts indicating that the reasons proffered by the defendant are merely pretextual or that the defendant was in fact motivated by a discriminatory motive. Failure to produce such evidence at the summary judgment stage entitles the defendant to judgment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[e]videnee that the reasons given by an employe[r] for the employment decision were not the “real” ones does not prove age discrimination, it only proves that some other reason motivated the employer. Absent some evidence that the real reason was the employee’s age ... either directly through the employer’s statements or actions regarding the plaintiff or indirectly through evidence of the employer’s treatment of other members of the protected class, it is impossible for an employee to survive a motion for summary judgment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.