Schnidrig v. Columbia Machine, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
80 F.3d 1406 · 1996
Citation profile
51 federal appellate · 41 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 135 later decisions — most recently September 2024 · most notably Chuang v. University of California Davis (2000), Raymond Vincent Nidds v. Schindler Elevator Corporation (1997)
51 federal appellate · 41 district · 4 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 McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green · McKennon v. Nashville Banner Publishing Co. · Air Line Pilots Ass'n, International v. Shugrue · Jesinger v. Nevada Federal Credit Union · Wisconsin Department of Revenue v. William Wrigley, Jr., Co.
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 135 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]e require very little evidence to survive summary judgment in a discrimination case, because the ultimate question is one that can only be resolved through a searching inquiry-one that is most appropriately conducted by the fact-finder, upon a full record.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[V]ery little ... evidence is necessary to raise a genuine issue of fact regarding an employer's motive; any indication of discriminatory motive ... may suffice to raise a question that can only be resolved by a factfinder.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a high standard for the granting of summary judgment in employment discrimination cases.”
4 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.