Bishopp v. District of Columbia’s Empirical Analysis
788 F.2d 781 · 1986
Citation profile
50 federal appellate · 25 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 104 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably Harding v. Gray (1993), Mastro v. Potomac Electric Power Co. (2006)
50 federal appellate · 25 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. § 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 · Hishon v. King & Spalding · United States Postal Service Board of Governors v. Aikens
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 104 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'based on an utterly implausible account of the evidence.'”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the judge below credited a witness whose testimony was so internally inconsistent or implausible on its face that a reasonable factfinder could not credit it.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]hite males, who as a group historically have not been hindered in the workplace because of their race or sex, are required to offer other particularized evidence, apart from their race and sex, that suggests some reason why an employer might discriminate against them.”
2 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.