Peacock v. Duval’s Empirical Analysis
694 F.2d 644 · 1982
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 6 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently February 2017 · most notably McKinley v. City of Eloy (1983), Sischo-Nownejad v. Merced Community College District (1991)
30 federal appellate · 6 district · 3 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
Relies on Mt. Healthy City School District Board of Education v. Doyle · Pickering v. Board of Education of Township High School District 205 Will County Illinois · Village of Arlington Heights v. Metropolitan Housing Development Corp. · Truong Dinh Hung v. United States · Castor v. United States
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“courts have traditionally held that summary judgment is inappropriate when questions of motive predominate in the inquiry about how big a role the protected behavior played in the employment decision.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]ithout a searching inquiry into these motives, those [acting for impermissible motives] could easily mask their behavior behind a complex web of post hoc rationalizations.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. 39 Fair empl.prac.cas. 350, 41 Fair empl.prac.cas. 931, 38 Empl. Prac. Dec. P 35,647 Kathryn Lowe v. City of Monrovia, Paul Stuart, Robert Bartlett, Monrovia City Council, John Nobrega, Mary Wilcox, Ed Zoolalian, Robert Ovrom and Betty Logans, Defendants · Sischo-Nownejad v. Merced Community College District“plainly . . . reserved to the trier of fact.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. 39 Fair empl.prac.cas. 350, 41 Fair empl.prac.cas. 931, 38 Empl. Prac. Dec. P 35,647 Kathryn Lowe v. City of Monrovia, Paul Stuart, Robert Bartlett, Monrovia City Council, John Nobrega, Mary Wilcox, Ed Zoolalian, Robert Ovrom and Betty Logans, Defendants · Janette Hopper Sharon Rupp v. City of Pasco Arts Council of the Mid-Columbia Region
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.