Thompkins v. Morris Brown College’s Empirical Analysis
752 F.2d 558 · 1985
Citation profile
43 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 84 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2013 · most notably Price Waterhouse v. Hopkins (1989), Talley v. Bravo Pitino Restaurant, Ltd. (1995)
43 federal appellate · 2 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 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 701 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 703 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 704 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 · United States v. United States Gypsum Co. · Mt. Healthy City School District Board of Education v. Doyle · International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. United States
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 84 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Once an unconstitutional motive is proved to have been a significant or substantial factor in an employment decision, defendant can rebut only by proving by a preponderance of the evidence that the same decision would have been reached even absent the presence of that factor.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(a) It shall be an unlawful employment practice for an employer-- (1) to fail or refuse to hire or to discharge any individual, or otherwise to discriminate against any individual with respect to his compensation, terms, conditions, or privileges of employment, because of such individual's race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“an employer to discriminate against any of his employees ... because [the employee] opposed any practice made an unlawful employment practice by this subchapter, or because [the employee] made a charge, testified, assisted, or participated in any manner in an investigation, proceeding, or hearing under this subchapter.”
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.