Strother v. Southern California Permanente Medical Group’s Empirical Analysis
79 F.3d 859 · 1996
Citation profile
38 federal appellate · 39 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 150 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2024 · most notably 36 Cal. 4th 1028 - Yanowitz v. L'OREAL USA, INC. (2005), Clackamas Gastroenterology Associates, P. C. v. Wells (2003)
38 federal appellate · 39 district · 10 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Relies on McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green · Hishon v. King & Spalding · Patterson v. McLean Credit Union · Salve Regina College v. Russell · Rivers v. Roadway Express, 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 150 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“using intermediate appellate court decisions, decisions from other jurisdictions, statutes, treatises, and restatements as guidance.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“mere ostracism in the workplace is not enough to show an adverse employment decision”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“where the plaintiff was in a relationship with the offending organization similar to that of the customer in the customer-proprietor relationship.”
3 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.