Perdomo v. Browner’s Empirical Analysis
67 F.3d 140 · 1995
Citation profile
51 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 95 later decisions — most recently July 2017 · most notably Combs v. Plantation Patterns (1997), Johnson v. City of Fort Wayne (1996)
51 federal appellate · 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 701 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 703 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green · Texas Department of Community Affairs v. Burdine · St. Mary's Honor Center v. Hicks · Trans World Airlines, Inc. v. Thurston · 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 95 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Pretext ... means a lie, specifically a phony reason for some action.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Because a fact-finder may infer intentional discrimination from an employer's untruthfulness, evidence that calls truthfulness into question precludes a summary judgment.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A] plaintiff need not prove that the real reason for an employer's action was discriminatory in order to survive a motion for summary judgment.”
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.