Mitroff v. Xomox Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
797 F.2d 271 · 1986
Citation profile
66 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 101 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably United States v. Bonds (1993), Jacklyn v. Schering-Plough Healthcare Products Sales Corp. (1999)
66 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 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 29 U.S.C. § 216 · 29 U.S.C. § 626 (§ 7 of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967)
Relies on McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green · Texas Department of Community Affairs v. Burdine · United Mine Workers of America v. Gibbs · Colorado River Water Conservation District v. United States · Blackwell v. Sun Electric Corp.
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 101 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[S]eldom will be the case when a lay opinion on an ultimate issue will meet the test of being helpful to the trier of fact since the jury's opinion is as good as the witness' and the witness turns into little more than an 'oath helper.'”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““If the witness is not testifying as an expert, his testimony in the form of opinions or inferences is limited to those opinions or inferences which are (1) rationally based on the perception of the witness and (2) helpful to a clear understanding of his testimony or the determination of a fact in issue.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A] statement of an agent or employee may be admissible against the principal (in this case [Brown] if within the scope of his agency or employment, but a proper foundation must be made for such a statement to show it was within the scope of his agency or employment.”
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.