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746 F.3d 857 · 2014

Citation profile

26
cited by 26 later decisions
1
states following
March 2025
most recently cited

5 federal appellate · 9 district · 1 state decisions

Relationships

Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2403 · 42 U.S.C. § 12202 (§ 502 of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 703 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)

Relies on McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green · Hans v. State of Louisiana · Fitzpatrick v. Bitzer · Board of Trustees of the University of Alabamas v. Patricia Garrett · Webster v. Fall

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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “Direct evidence of retaliation is evidence that demonstrates a specific link between a materially adverse action and the protected conduct, sufficient to support a finding by a reasonable fact finder that the harmful adverse-action was in retaliation for the protected conduct.”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “[D]etermine ... on a claim-by-claim basis, (1) which aspects of the State’s alleged conduct violated Title II; (2) to what extent such misconduct also violated the Fourteenth Amendment; and (3) insofar as such misconduct violated Title II but did not violate the Fourteenth Amendment, whether Congress’s purported abrogation of sovereign immunity as to that class of conduct is nevertheless valid.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “[m]ore than two months is too long to support a finding of causation without something more.”
    1 later decision 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.