Smith v. Fw Morse & Co Inc’s Empirical Analysis
76 F.3d 413 · 1996
Citation profile
72 federal appellate · 139 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 285 later decisions — most recently July 2025 · most notably Nilsa Santiago-Ramos v. Centennial Pr Wireless Corp (2000), Stevenson v. Superior Court (1997)
72 federal appellate · 139 district · 8 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
Relies on McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green · Texas Department of Community Affairs v. Burdine · Anderson v. City of Bessemer City · St. Mary's Honor Center v. Hicks · Landgraf v. USI Film Products
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 285 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The terms “because of sex” or “on the basis of sex” include, but are not limited to, because of or on the basis of pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions; and women affected by pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions shall be treated the same for all employment-related purposes ... as other persons not so affected but similar in their ability or inability to work. 42 U.S.C. § 2000e(k).”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“[S]ummary judgment's role is to pierce the boilerplate of the pleadings and assay the parties' proof in order to determine whether trial is actually required.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“an admission by the employer that it explicitly took actual or anticipated pregnancy into account in reaching an employment decision”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.