Varner v. National Super Markets, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
94 F.3d 1209 · 1996
Citation profile
75 federal appellate · 5 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 121 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2023 · most notably Faragher v. City of Boca Raton (1998), Kim v. Nash Finch Company (1997)
75 federal appellate · 5 district · 6 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
Relies on Meritor Savings Bank, FSB v. Vinson · Alexander v. Gardner-Denver Co. · Pandazides v. Virginia Board of Education · Stacks v. Southwestern Bell Yellow Pages, Inc.
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 121 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he United States Supreme Court has held that the pursuit of a claim through grievance and binding arbitration under a [collective bargaining agreement] does not preclude a civil suit under Title VII, and we believe that the same reasoning applies to a plaintiff who has chosen not to participate in the grievance procedure.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“outrageous because of [its] evil motive or reckless indifference to the rights of others,”
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.