Fallis v. Corporation’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 45 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 81 later decisions — most recently November 2025 · most notably 24 Cal. 4th 317 - Guz v. Bechtel National, Inc. (2000), LeBlanc v. Great American Insurance (1993)
14 federal appellate · 45 district · 5 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 McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green · American Manufacturers Mutual Insurance v. United States · Boatmen's National Bank of St. Louis v. Carver · Massa v. United States · United States v. Schwartz
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 81 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]fter a full trial on the merits, the sequential analytical model adopted from McDonnell Douglas ... drops out and we are left with the single overarching issue whether plaintiff adduced sufficient evidence to warrant a jury’s determination that adverse employment action was taken against him on the basis of age.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[S]uch a small statistical sample carries little or no probative force to show discrimination.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“is too small to provide reliable statistical results.”
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.