Ruby v. Springfield R-12 Public School District’s Empirical Analysis
76 F.3d 909 · 1996
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 4 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently February 2013 · most notably Rose-Maston v. NME Hospitals, Inc. (1998), Montandon v. Farmland Industries, Inc. (1997)
27 federal appellate · 4 district · 3 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. § 1981 (Civil Rights Act of 1866)
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green · St. Mary's Honor Center v. Hicks · Zipes v. Trans World 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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“sit as a super-personnel department that reexamines an entity's business decisions.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“weigh the wisdom of any particular employment decision.”
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.