Chaffin v. Rheem Manufacturing Co.’s Empirical Analysis
904 F.2d 1269 · 1990
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 9 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently January 2016 · most notably Beshears v. Asbill (1991), Blades C-K v. Monsanto Company (2005)
21 federal appellate · 9 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) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 706 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 · Price Waterhouse v. Hopkins · General Telephone Co. of Southwest v. Falcon · United Air Lines, Inc. v. Evans
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Despite these shifting burdens, the plaintiff retains throughout the case the ultimate burden of persuading the trier of fact that the employer discriminated against her.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“, states that have their own state or local employment opportunity commissions, a party must file with the EEOC or the state agency within 300 days after the alleged unlawful employment practice. 42 U.S.C. § 2000e-5(e). When, however, a complainant challenges an ongoing pattern or practice of discrimination rather than one isolated instance, the alleged violation may be deemed”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“such charge shall be filed [with the EEOC] by or on behalf of the person aggrieved within three hundred days after the alleged unlawful employment practice occurred”
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.