Wolf v. Buss Inc’s Empirical Analysis
77 F.3d 914 · 1996
Citation profile
81 federal appellate · 6 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 209 later decisions — most recently March 2024 · most notably Chapman v. AI Transport (2000), Wallace II v. Smc Pneumatics Inc (1997)
81 federal appellate · 6 district · 4 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 · In re Disbarment of Gonzales · Fuentes v. Perskie · Shager v. Upjohn Co. · Russell v. Acme-Evans Co.
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 209 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'Pretext...means a lie, specifically a phony reason for some action.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“does not sit as a super-personnel department that reexamines an entity’s business decisions. The question is not whether the [employer] exercised prudent business judgment, but whether [the employee] has come forward to refute the articulated, legitimate reasons for his discharge.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) factually baseless, (2) not the actual motivation for the discharge, or (3) insufficient to motivate the discharge.”
4 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.