Jackson v. Harvard University’s Empirical Analysis
900 F.2d 464 · 1990
Citation profile
57 federal appellate · 24 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 109 later decisions — most recently September 2023 · most notably Mauzy v. Kelly Services, Inc. (1996), Ezold 91-1780 v. Wolf Block Schorr and Solis-Cohen 91-1741 (1992)
57 federal appellate · 24 district · 7 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 (§ 701 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 · United States v. United States Gypsum Co. · Price Waterhouse v. Hopkins
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 109 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Direct evidence is evidence which, in and of itself, shows a discriminatory animus.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]here there are two permissible views of the evidence, the factfinder's choice between them cannot be clearly erroneous.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In all actions tried upon the facts without a jury.... Findings of fact, whether based on oral or documentary evidence, shall not be set aside unless clearly erroneous and due regard shall be given to the opportunity of the trial court to judge of the credibility of the witnesses.”
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.