Johnson v. Burnley’s Empirical Analysis
887 F.2d 471 · 1989
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently May 2007 · most notably Holifield v. Reno (1997), Seay v. Tennessee Valley Authority (2003)
16 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 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. § 216 · 29 U.S.C. § 255 · 29 U.S.C. § 633A (§ 15 of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 701 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 717 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 706 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964) · 5 U.S.C. § 7703
Relies on Consumer Product Safety Commission v. GTE Sylvania, Inc. · Zipes v. Trans World Airlines, Inc. · Hewitt v. Helms · Bender v. Williamsport Area School District · Mahan & Rowsey, Inc. v. Oklahoma Natural Gas
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) that plaintiff engaged in prohibited conduct similar to that of a person of another race, color, sex, religion, or national origin, and (2) that disciplinary measures enforced against the plaintiff were more severe than those enforced against the other person.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“Congressional intent determines whether sovereign immunity will apply in suits against the federal government, and ... Congress clearly intended that federal employees receive the same rights to sue under Title VII as private sector workers.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Rennie v. Garrett
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.