Davis v. Combustion Engineering, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
742 F.2d 916 · 1984
Citation profile
87 federal appellate · 6 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 154 later decisions — most recently August 2016 · most notably Maxfield v. Sinclair International (1985), Simpson v. Midland-Ross Corp. (1987)
87 federal appellate · 6 district · 12 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
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 621 (§ 2 of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967) · 29 U.S.C. § 626 (§ 7 of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967) · 29 U.S.C. § 627 (§ 8 of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967)
Relies on McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green · Texas Department of Community Affairs v. Burdine · Blum v. Stenson · Barefoot v. Estelle · Coastal Steel Corp. v. Wheelabrator-Frye, 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 154 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an award of front pay must be governed by the sound discretion of the trial court and may not be appropriate in all cases.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Rule 702 should be broadly interpreted on the basis of whether the use of expert testimony will assist the trier of fact.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]f scientific, technical, or other specialized knowledge will assist the trier of fact to understand the evidence or to determine a fact in issue, a witness qualified as an expert by knowledge, skill, experience, training, or education, may testify thereto in the form of an opinion or otherwise.”
4 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.