Goldberg v. B. Green & Co.’s Empirical Analysis
836 F.2d 845 · 1988
Citation profile
69 federal appellate · 56 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 244 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably Evans v. Technologies Applications & Service Co. (1996), Holifield v. Reno (1997)
69 federal appellate · 56 district · 2 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. § 631 (§ 12 of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967)
Relies on Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green · United Mine Workers of America v. Gibbs · Jizmejian v. United States · Griffin v. United States
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 244 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“of a stated purpose to discriminate [on the basis of age] of sufficient probative force to reflect a genuine issue of material fact.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“burden 'under ordinary principles of proof by any direct or indirect evidence relevant to and sufficiently probative of the issue.'”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“(1) [T]he plaintiff is in the protected age group; (2) the plaintiff was discharged or demoted; (3) at the time of discharge or demotion, the plaintiff was performing his job at a level that met his employer’s legitimate expectations; and (4) following his discharge or demotion, the plaintiff was replaced by someone of comparable qualifications outside the protected class [or, in the case of a reduction-in-force,] some other evidence that the employer did not treat age neutrally.”
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.