Ford v. Nicks’s Empirical Analysis
866 F.2d 865 · 1989
Citation profile
35 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably Gagne v. Northwestern National Insurance Company, Minority Employees of the Tennessee Department of Employment Security Incorporated v. State of Tennessee Department of Employment Security (1990)
35 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 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 (§ 706 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green · Texas Department of Community Affairs v. Burdine · Anderson v. City of Bessemer City · Albemarle Paper Co. v. Moody · Franks v. Bowman Transportation 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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Substantially equivalent employment is that employment which affords virtually identical promotional opportunities, compensation, job responsibilities, working conditions, and status as the position from which the [ADEA] claimant has been discriminatorily terminated.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“An employee is not required to go to heroic lengths in attempting to mitigate his damages, but only to take reasonable steps to do so.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he notice of appeal shall specify the party or parties taking the appeal....”
2 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.