Mortensen v. Callaway’s Empirical Analysis
672 F.2d 822 · 1982
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently November 2022 · most notably Coates v. Johnson & Johnson (1985), Moore v. Hughes Helicopters Inc. (1983)
15 federal appellate · 4 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
Relies on McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green · Texas Department of Community Affairs v. Burdine · Griggs v. Duke Power Co. · Stastny v. Southern Bell Telephone & Telegraph Co. · United States Postal Service Board of Governors v. Aikens
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“by fulfilling McDonnell Douglas's first three criteria and showing that the position was filled by another.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Mohammed v. Callaway
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.