Unterreiner v. Volkswagen of America, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
8 F.3d 1206 · 1993
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 126 later decisions — most recently April 2015 · most notably Doe v. Rr Donnelley & Sons Company (1994), Abdullahi ex rel. Estate of Mohamed v. City of Madison (2005)
23 federal appellate · 1 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
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Yagow v. United States · Coastal Steel Corp. v. Wheelabrator-Frye, Inc. · Wrenn v. Gould · Icicle Seafoods, Inc. v. Worthington
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 126 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Under some circumstances, a company's failure to post a notice of employees' rights under the ADEA may toll the statute of limitations.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Posey’s affidavit merely indicates that Po-sey never saw the ADEA notice, which is not the same as an averment that the notice was not in fact conspicuously posted. This is no doubt a very close distinction, but it is one we must draw, especially in light of the strict requirements of Rule 56 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. ... Posey’s affidavit perhaps at best hints that a question of fact may exist in this case. Rule 56, however, demands that Posey show specific facts indicating that a genuine issue does indeed exist for trial.... Unsupported by other evidence, Posey’s averment that he never saw an ADEA poster at Skyline fails to go far enough to rebut Skyline’s unambiguous affidavits.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Statements of Volkswagen’s Personnel Manager, on the other hand, are unequivocal. He claims, to have posted a notice which remained on the bulletin board at all times during Unterreiner’s employment. Unterreiner might have established a ‘genuine’ issue of fact by obtaining the deposition testimony or affidavits of other employees who had a better recollection of the bulletin board. He did not do so, and wé are left only with his own statement based on a vague and somewhat conflicting recollection. This does not create a genuine issue of material fact.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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