Dabrowski v. Warner-Lambert Co.’s Empirical Analysis
815 F.2d 1076 · 1987
Citation profile
15 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently February 2010 · most notably Diggs v. Pepsi-Cola Metropolitan Bottling Co. (1988), Schoonmaker v. Spartan Graphics Leasing, LLC (2010)
15 federal appellate ·
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 28 U.S.C. § 1441 · 29 U.S.C. § 621 (§ 2 of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967)
Relies on Toussaint v. Blue Cross & Blue Shield · Thor C. LAUGESEN, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. the ANACONDA COMPANY, Defendant-Appellee · Matras v. Amoco Oil Co. · Sahadi v. Reynolds Chemical · Fugate v. Morton
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is limited on review to the question of whether the party opposing the motion offered evidence about which reasonable minds could differ.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[e]vidence that a competent older employee was terminated, and the younger employee was retained, is insufficient standing alone to establish a prima facie case when the employer reduces his workforce because of economic necessity.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Morgan v. Stanley Works · William Adam, Robert L. Aiken, Eugene P. Balda, William Brown, Don Cunningham, Al Dore, Marie MacKenzie Stan McNeff Jim O'neill, Cal Shepherd, Tom Smith, William Steel, Bruno Walczak, and Marjorie Wright v. Ethyl Corporation, and Calvin C. Shepherd v. Ethyl Corporation“push the Toussaint rationale far beyond the limits to which it has thus far been confined by the Michigan courts.”
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.