Crimm v. Missouri Pacific Railroad’s Empirical Analysis
750 F.2d 703 · 1984
Citation profile
66 federal appellate · 5 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 102 later decisions — most recently August 2021 · most notably College-Town, Division of Interco, Inc. v. Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination (1987), Steele v. Offshore Shipbuilding, Inc. (1989)
66 federal appellate · 5 district · 14 state decisions — followed in 12 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 29 U.S.C. § 621 (§ 2 of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967) · 29 U.S.C. § 623 (§ 4 of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 701 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964) · 44 U.S.C. § 1507 · 44 U.S.C. § 1510
Relies on McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green · Texas Department of Community Affairs v. Burdine · United States Postal Service Board of Governors v. Aikens · General Electric Co. v. Gilbert · Nogueras v. Puerto Rico International Airlines, 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 102 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'technically imperfect or are not a model of clarity does not render the charge erroneous.'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“may be used by an adverse party for any purpose.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a]t the prima facie stage, Gill only needed to prove that `[she] was doing [her] job well enough to rule out the possibility that [she] was fired for inadequate job performance.'”
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.