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Gibson v. Geithner’s Empirical Analysis

776 F.3d 536 · 2015

Citation profile

20
cited by 20 later decisions
May 2025
most recently cited

5 federal appellate · 2 district ·

Relationships

Relies on McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green · Ricci v. DeStefano · Michigan v. Bryant · Torgerson v. City of Rochester · Staub v. Proctor Hospital

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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “(1) [s]he engaged in protected conduct; (2) a reasonable employee would have found the retaliatory action materially adverse; and (3) the materially adverse action was causally linked to the protected conduct.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “the facts in the light most favorable to the nonmoving party and giv[e] that party the benefit of all reasonable inferences that can be drawn from the record.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “evidence of pretext ... is viewed in light of the employer's justification.”
    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.