692 F. Supp. 2d 119 - Dorns v. Geithner’s Empirical Analysis

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34 district ·

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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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “(1) [he] is a member of a protected class; (2) [he] was subjected to unwelcome harassment; (3) the harassment occurred because of the plaintiffs protected status; (4) the harassment affected a term, condition, or privilege of employment; and (5) the employer knew or should have known about the harassment, but nonetheless failed to take steps to prevent it.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 824 F. Supp. 2d 99 - Turner v. Nicholson

2. “There is a 'thick body of precedent [that] ... refutes the notion that formal criticism or poor performance evaluations are necessarily adverse actions.' " Dorns , 692 F.Supp.2d at 133 (quoting Brown v. Brody , 199 F.3d 446 , 458 (D.C. Cir. 1999) ). The "effect of a poor evaluation is ordinarily too speculative to be actionable.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Walden v. Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Inst.

3. “An employment decision does not rise to the level of an actionable adverse action ... unless there is a 'tangible change in the duties or working conditions constituting a material employment disadvantage.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Walden v. Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Inst.