Johnson v. Yellow Freight System, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
734 F.2d 1304 · 1984
Citation profile
53 federal appellate · 11 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 105 later decisions — most recently December 2019 · most notably Hunter v. Allis-Chalmers Corp. (1986), Perry Coleman (2000)
53 federal appellate · 11 district · 14 state decisions — followed in 10 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. § 1981 (Civil Rights Act of 1866) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 701 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 · McDonald v. Santa Fe Trail Transportation Co. · Board of Trustees of Keene State College v. Sweeney · Chandler v. Roudebush
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 105 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... there is little probative value in the EEOC’s conclusory statements regarding the same evidence [presented to the jury]. To admit the report under these circumstances would amount to admitting the opinion of an expert witness as to what conclusions the jury should draw, even though the jury had the opportunity and the ability to draw its own conclusions from the evidence....”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) [s]he is a member of a protected class; (2) [s]he was capable of performing [her] job satisfactorily; and (3) [s]he was discharged.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“are not homogeneous products; they vary greatly in quality and factual detail.”
2 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.