Farber v. Massillon Board of Education’s Empirical Analysis
917 F.2d 1391 · 1990
Citation profile
48 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 91 later decisions — most recently July 2022 · most notably Chapman v. AI Transport (2000), Mickey Gregory, As Administrator of the Estate of Gerald Gregory,/cross v. Shelby County, Tennessee (2000)
48 federal appellate · 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. § 621 (§ 2 of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967) · 29 U.S.C. § 626 (§ 7 of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 701 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on Texas Department of Community Affairs v. Burdine · Anderson v. City of Bessemer City · United States v. United States Gypsum Co. · Parklane Hosiery Co. v. Shore · Albemarle Paper Co. v. Moody
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 91 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a jury verdict will not be set aside or reduced as excessive unless it is beyond the maximum damages that the jury reasonably could find to be compensatory for a party's loss.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he basis upon which reinstatements ... may be denied must be more compelling than the personal preferences and distrusts which accompanied the initial discriminatory activity. “It is not enough that reinstatement might have ‘disturbing consequences,’ that it might revive old antagonisms, or that it could ‘breed difficult working conditions’ because relief is not restricted to that which will be pleasing and free of irritation.” The district court, on such petition, is of course bound by the jury’s decision of the issue of prior discrimination.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A] forced remittitur without the offer of the option of a new trial on the issue of damages constitutes error, requiring this court to reverse and reinstate the verdict.”
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.