Guthrie v. J.C. Penney Co.’s Empirical Analysis
803 F.2d 202 · 1986
Citation profile
54 federal appellate · 1 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 102 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably Mauzy v. Kelly Services, Inc. (1996), Frank L. SPULAK, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. K MART CORPORATION, Defendant-Appellant (1990)
54 federal appellate · 1 district · 11 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. § 626 (§ 7 of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967)
Relies on McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green · United States Postal Service Board of Governors v. Aikens · Trans World Airlines, Inc. v. Thurston · The Boeing Company v. Daniel C. Shipman · Stafford v. Oklahoma
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 102 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“All actions for assault, assault and battery, maiming, false imprisonment, malicious' arrest, and all actions for slanderous words concerning the person or title, for failure to employ and for libels shall be commenced within one (1) year next after the cause of such action accrued, and not after.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the question on which constructive discharge cases turn is simply whether the employer by its illegal discriminatory acts has made working conditions so difficult that a reasonable person in the employee's position would feel compelled to resign.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Factual findings in employment discrimination cases are reviewed on the same standard as in other cases. Consequently, the Court will not overturn the jury verdict unless it is not supported by substantial evidence.”
1 later decision 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.