Brown v. CSC Logic, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
82 F.3d 651 · 1996
Citation profile
65 federal appellate · 6 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 222 later decisions — most recently March 2023 · most notably Waterhouse v. District of Columbia (2002), Russell v. McKinney Hospital Venture (2000)
65 federal appellate · 6 district · 13 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) · 29 U.S.C. § 623 (§ 4 of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967)
Relies on Texas Department of Community Affairs v. Burdine · Stafford v. Oklahoma · Halas v. Department of Energy · Akers v. United States · Israel v. Futuronics Corp.
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 222 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) related [to the protected class of persons of which the plaintiff is a member]; (2) proximate in time to the terminations; (3) made by an individual with authority over the employment decision at issue; and (4) related to the employment decision at issue.”
17 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[C]laims that employer animus exists in termination but not in hiring seem irrational. From the standpoint of the putative discriminator, it hardly makes sense to hire workers from a group one dislikes (thereby incurring the psychological costs of associating with them), only to fire them once they are on the job.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“not rule out the possibility that an individual could prove a case of discrimination.”
3 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.