Henson v. City of Dundee’s Empirical Analysis
682 F.2d 897 · 1982
Citation profile
320 federal appellate · 86 district · 99 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 926 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2023 · most notably Harris v. Forklift Systems, Inc. (1993), Meritor Savings Bank, FSB v. Vinson (1986)
320 federal appellate · 86 district · 99 state decisions — followed in 28 states
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. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 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 · United States v. United States Gypsum Co. · International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. United States · 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 926 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to alter the conditions of [the victim's] employment and create an abusive working environment.”
139 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Sexual harassment which creates a hostile or offensive environment for members of one sex is every bit the arbitrary barrier to sexual equality at the workplace that racial harassment is to racial equality. Surely, a requirement that a man or woman run a gauntlet of sexual abuse in return for the privilege of being allowed to work and make a living can be as demeaning and disconcerting as the harshest of racial epithets.”
50 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'has the purpose or effect of unreasonably interfering with an individual's work performance or creating an intimidating, hostile, or offensive working environment.'”
26 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.