Travers v. Flight Services & Systems, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis

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8 federal appellate · 19 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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Because the district court granted summary judgment for [Delaware North], we 'describe the facts giving rise to this lawsuit in a light as favorable to [Raheb] as the record will reasonably allow.'”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. McCoy v. Town of Pittsfield, NH · Raheb v. Delaware North Companies, Inc. - Boston

2. ““[T]he applicable standard requires “but-for” causation.... [Plaintiffj’s claim would fail if [defendant] would have fired him absent retaliatory animus. And [defendant] also correctly reasons that the evidence here would allow a reasonable jury to conclude that [defendant] would have fired [plaintiff] ... even if he had never [engaged in protected activity]. On ... summary judgment ..., however, the question is not whether a reasonable jury could find that [defendant] would have fired [plaintiff] even in the absence of retaliatory intent. Rather, the question pertinent to our review of summary judgment is whether no reasonable jury could find otherwise.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. United States ex rel. Thorpe v. GlaxoSmithKline PLC

3. “court shall grant summary judgment if the movant shows that there is no genuine dispute as to any material fact and - 10 - the movant is entitled to judgment as a matter of law.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Der Sarkisian v. Austin Preparatory School