Jordan v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
851 F.2d 1290 · 1988
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently December 2017 · most notably Jove Engineering, Inc. v. Internal Revenue Service (1996), McGregor v. Chierico (2000)
8 federal appellate · 1 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 701 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on Meritor Savings Bank, FSB v. Vinson · Bonner v. City of Prichard · Donnellon v. Fruehauf Corp. · United States v. Rizzo · United States v. Koblitz
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a) that the employee’s activity falls within the scope of protection of Title VII; b) that the employee suffered an adverse employment decision; and c) that a causal link exists between the protected activity and the detrimental employment action.”
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.