Thomas v. Douglas’s Empirical Analysis
877 F.2d 1428 · 1989
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 9 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently July 2016 · most notably Brooks v. City of San Mateo (2000), Steiner v. Showboat Operating Co. (1994)
25 federal appellate · 9 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Hensley v. Eckerhart · Mt. Healthy City School District Board of Education v. Doyle · Pickering v. Board of Education of Township High School District 205 Will County Illinois
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A constructive discharge occurs when, looking at the totality of the circumstances, 'a reasonable person in [the employee's] position would have felt that he was forced to quit because of intolerable and discriminatory working conditions.'”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Schouweiler v. Findley · Jesse J. Sanchez Victor Torres Robert Caro v. City of Santa Ana, and City of Santa Ana Police Department Don Botts Raymond C. Davis E.B. Hansen Robert Stebbens Norwood Williams Lee Drummond Lawrence Pitzer Michael Llewellyn Dale Sterzer Gary Dixon John Collins John McDaniels Michael Lanners William Bruns John Dittus Richard Faust John McClain Jesse J. Sanchez Victor Torres Robert Caro v. City of Santa Ana, and Robert Stebbens Norwood Williams Lee Drummond Lawrence Pitzer Michael Llewellyn Dale Sterzer Gary Dixon John Collins John McDaniels Michael Lanners William Bruns John Dittus Richard Faust John McClain“'aggravating factors,' such as a 'continuous pattern of discriminatory treatment.'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Leo Simon v. Automatic Data Processing, Inc. · Jesse J. Sanchez Victor Torres Robert Caro v. City of Santa Ana, and City of Santa Ana Police Department Don Botts Raymond C. Davis E.B. Hansen Robert Stebbens Norwood Williams Lee Drummond Lawrence Pitzer Michael Llewellyn Dale Sterzer Gary Dixon John Collins John McDaniels Michael Lanners William Bruns John Dittus Richard Faust John McClain Jesse J. Sanchez Victor Torres Robert Caro v. City of Santa Ana, and Robert Stebbens Norwood Williams Lee Drummond Lawrence Pitzer Michael Llewellyn Dale Sterzer Gary Dixon John Collins John McDaniels Michael Lanners William Bruns John Dittus Richard Faust John McClain“Whether working conditions were so intolerable and discriminatory as to justify a reasonable employee’s decision to resign is normally a factual question for the jury. In general, however, a single isolated inci dent is insufficient as a matter of law to support a finding of constructive discharge. Thus, a plaintiff alleging a constructive discharge must s¿k / some aggravating factors, such as a continuous pattern of discriminatory treatment.”
1 later decision 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.