Perdue v. Burger King Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
7 F.3d 1251 · 1993
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably Heller v. Fortis Benefits Insurance (1998), Smith v. Texas Children's Hospital (1996)
18 federal appellate · 1 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 Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Firestone Tire and Rubber Company v. Bruch · Shaw v. Delta Air Lines, Inc. · Metropolitan Life Insurance v. Taylor · Grogan v. Garner
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Id. Plaintiff submits no statements from Nestle customers to substantiate his assertions. Such speculation is legally insufficient to create a genuine issue of material fact that would preclude summary judgment. 3 . Illingworth responds in his certification:”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“in effect for three years, applied to two nation-wide personnel reorganizations, and required an `administrative set-up' to monitor and facilitate provision of benefits.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he prohibitions under the statute do not extend per se to an employer who retains an employee so as to avoid payment of severance benefits under an ERISA plan.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bodine
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.