Scott v. Sears, Roebuck & Co.’s Empirical Analysis
798 F.2d 210 · 1986
Citation profile
40 federal appellate · 12 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 103 later decisions — most recently July 2018 · most notably Waltman v. International Paper Co. (1989), Dey v. Colt Construction & Development Co. (1994)
40 federal appellate · 12 district · 7 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 (§ 701 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 703 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green · Meritor Savings Bank, FSB v. Vinson · City of Los Angeles Department of Water v. Manhart · Henson v. City of Dundee · Bundy v. Jackson
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 103 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the demeaning conduct and sexual stereotyping cause[d] such anxiety and debilitation to the plaintiff that working conditions were 'poisoned' within the meaning of Title VII.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage““For sexual harassment to be actionable it must be sufficiently severe or pervasive ‘to alter the conditions of /the victim’s/ employment and create an abusive working environment’ ””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“so pervasive or psychologically debilitating that [it] affected Scott's ability to perform on the job.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.