Fowler v. Carrollton Public Library’s Empirical Analysis
799 F.2d 976 · 1986
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently September 2017 · most notably Russell v. McKinney Hospital Venture (2000), Brown v. CSC Logic, Inc. (1996)
20 federal appellate · 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 29 U.S.C. § 621 (§ 2 of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 701 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green · Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Texas Department of Community Affairs v. Burdine · Cleveland Board of Education v. Loudermill · Parratt v. Taylor
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In order to establish a cognizable claim of constructive discharge, a plaintiff must allege particular facts showing either that the employer found [himjself 'between the Scylla of voluntary resignation and the Charybdis of forced termination,’ or that 'the employment conduct ... [was] motivated by a desire to avoid subjecting its actions to the scrutiny of a termination-related hearing.’”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[c]onstructive discharge in a procedural due process case constitutes a § 1983 claim only if it amounts to forced discharge to avoid affording pretermination hearing procedures.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Motivation presents a classic jury issue.”
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.