Townsend v. Benjamin Enterprises, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
679 F.3d 41 · 2012
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 636 · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 701 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 717 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 704 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 705 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 706 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Harris v. Forklift Systems, Inc. · Meritor Savings Bank, FSB v. Vinson · Faragher v. City of Boca Raton · Skidmore v. Swift & 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 89 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A corporate employee, though he has a title as an officer and is the manager or supervisor of a corporate division, is not individually subject to suit with respect to discrimination based on age or sex under New York’s Human Rights Law (Executive Law, art. 15) or its Labor Law (§ 194) or under the Federal Age Discrimination in Employment Act [ADEA] ( 29 USC § 623 ) or Equal Pay Act [EPA] ( 29 USC § 206 , subd [d]) if he is not shown to have any ownership interest or any power to do more than carry out personnel decisions made by others.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a prevailing plaintiff may not recover from the defendant attorney’s fees and costs accrued after an Offer of Judgment is served if the Offer exceeds the sum of the plaintiffs ultimate recovery plus the amount of fees and costs accrued by the plaintiff as of the time of the Offer.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“'[a] motion for a new trial ordinarily should not be granted unless the trial court is convinced that the jury has reached a seriously erroneous result or that the verdict is a miscarriage of justice.'”
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.