Spring v. Sheboygan Area School District’s Empirical Analysis
865 F.2d 883 · 1989
Citation profile
55 federal appellate · 15 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 161 later decisions — most recently May 2022 · most notably Kocsis v. Multi-Care Management, Inc. (1996), Regina C. Brown, v. Kenneth D. Brody, Chairman, Export-Import Bank of the United States, (1999)
55 federal appellate · 15 district · 3 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. § 626 (§ 7 of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967)
Relies on Trans World Airlines, Inc. v. Thurston · Bartman v. Allis-Chalmers Corp. · Dorsch v. Lb Foster Company · Frazer v. KFC National Management Co.
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 161 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he ADEA is not intended to prevent employers from changing the job responsibilities of their 40-70 year old employees. Neither is the Act intended to give 40 to 70 year old employees the right to walk out and sue their employer because they dislike their changed job responsibilities. To establish a violation of the ADEA, therefore, a plaintiff must prove that she suffered a materially adverse change in the terms and conditions of her employment because of her employer’s discriminatory conduct.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“To establish a violation of the ADEA, therefore, a plaintiff must prove that she suffered a materially adverse change in the terms or conditions of her employment.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[A] materially adverse change in the terms and conditions of employment must be more disruptive than a mere inconvenience or an alteration of job responsibilities.”
2 later decisions 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.