Sorlucco v. New York City Police Department’s Empirical Analysis
888 F.2d 4 · 1989
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably Patterson v. County of Oneida (2004), Holtz v. Rockefeller & Co. (2001)
11 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 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. § 1985 · 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 · Trans World Airlines, Inc. v. Thurston · Johnson v. Righetti
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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[h]e is a member of a protected class, that [he] is qualified for the job in question, that the employer rejected or discharged [him] despite [his] qualifications and that the employer sought other applicants for the plaintiffs position.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The plaintiff may preclude summary judgment by producing evidence from which the trier of fact reasonably could draw an inference of discrimination.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“a court must resolve all ambiguities and draw all reasonable inferences in favor of the nonmoving party.”
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.