Thayer v. Vaughan’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
3 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 701 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on Meritor Savings Bank, FSB v. Vinson · National Railroad Passenger Corporation v. Morgan · Monge v. California · Delaware State College v. Ricks · Burlington Industries, Inc. v. Ellerth
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Where an expert's testimony is based upon the expert's skill or experience rather than on the application of scientific principles, the proponent of the testimony must only demonstrate that the subject matter is related to some field beyond the knowledge of lay persons and the witness possesses sufficient skill, knowledge or experience in the field to assist the trier of fact to understand the evidence or to determine a fact in issue.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“super-personnel department that re-examines an entity's business decisions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“to exercise ordinary skill and knowledge.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Flatow v. Ingalls
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.