Johnson v. Koppers, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
726 F.3d 910 · 2013
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1981 (Civil Rights Act of 1866) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 703 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on Coleman v. Donahoe · Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. BCI Coca-Cola Bottling Co. · Smith v. Bray · Everroad v. Scott Truck Systems, Inc. · Goodman v. National Security Agency, Inc.
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“evidence that the biased subordinate actually harbored discriminatory animus against the victim of the subject employment action, and evidence that the biased subordinate's scheme was the proximate cause of the adverse employment action.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“when a biased subordinate who lacks decision-making power uses the formal decision-maker as a dupe in a deliberate scheme to trigger a discriminatory employment action.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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