Burns v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
829 F.3d 1 · 2016
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 14 district ·
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 703 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 706 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green · St. Mary's Honor Center v. Hicks · Harris v. Forklift Systems, Inc. · Faragher v. City of Boca Raton
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“more disruptive than a mere inconvenience or an alteration of job responsibilities.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“first establish a prima facie case by showing that: (1) she belonged to a protected class, (2) she performed her job satisfactorily, (3) her employer took an adverse employment decision against her, and (4) her employer continued to have her duties performed by a comparably qualified person,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he burden of production then 'shifts to the [defendants] to state a legitimate, nondiscriminatory reason for the adverse employment action[s].'”
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.