Pierce v. Marsh’s Empirical Analysis
859 F.2d 601 · 1988
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently September 2011 · most notably Torgerson v. City of Rochester (2011), Chock v. Northwest Airlines, Inc. (1997)
21 federal appellate · 1 district · 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. § 2000E (§ 701 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green · Portis v. Folk Construction Co. · McIntosh v. Weinberger
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Even if these subjective reasons ["evaluation based on personal observation of the candidates”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“not raise an inference of . . . discrimination.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“(1) an identifiable, facially-neutral personnel policy or practice; (2) a disparate effect on members of a protected class; and (3) a causal connection between the two.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.