Smith v. Monsanto Chemical Co.’s Empirical Analysis
770 F.2d 719 · 1985
Citation profile
43 federal appellate · 9 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 88 later decisions — most recently February 2022 · most notably Mitchell v. Toledo Hospital (1992), Holifield v. Reno (1997)
43 federal appellate · 9 district · 5 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) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 706 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 · Anderson v. City of Bessemer City · United States Postal Service Board of Governors v. Aikens · Johnson v. Bunny Bread 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 88 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“similarly situated in all relevant respects”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'all the evidence points one way and is susceptible of no reasonable inferences sustaining [Grogg's] position.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“rule, the number of days they remained absent before returning to work, the nature or severity of their medical conditions, or the extent to which their medical conditions were corroborated by independent, medical documentation. Moreover, the evidence in this case indicates that Williams may have falsified his medical records, a circumstance not shown by Williams to exist in other cases of reinstatement of Caucasian persons. 14 In sum, non-discriminatory factors could have accounted for Ford's different treatment of its employees who violated the”
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.