Rossy v. Roche Products, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
880 F.2d 621 · 1989
Citation profile
40 federal appellate · 58 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 110 later decisions — most recently December 2024 · most notably Medina-Munoz v. Rj Reynolds Tobacco Company (1990), Griggs-Ryan v. Smith (1990)
40 federal appellate · 58 district ·
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. · McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green · Texas Department of Community Affairs v. Burdine · Price Waterhouse v. Hopkins · Patterson v. McLean Credit Union
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 110 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“our review will be most searching in cases, such as this, that turn upon the issue of motivation or intent.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“is not to second-guess the business decisions of an employer, imposing [its] subjective judgment[ ] of which person would best fulfill the responsibilities of a certain job.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“there existed any factual issues that needed to be resolved before the legal issues could be decided.”
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.