Simpson v. Diversitech General, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
945 F.2d 156 · 1991
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently March 2014 · most notably Cosgrove v. Sears, Roebuck & Co. (1993), Stacks v. Southwestern Bell Yellow Pages, Inc. (1994)
17 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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 (§ 703 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 · McDonald v. Santa Fe Trail Transportation Co. · Trujillo v. Grand Junction Regional Center
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]f Ruckman initiated the disciplinary action leading to Simpson's dismissal due to Simpson's race, simply showing that Ruckman had no role in the 'final' decision to terminate him is insufficient to establish that Diversitech would have made the same decision even absent the racial animus.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“may avoid a finding of liability only by proving that it would have made the same decision even if it had not allowed gender to play such a role.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“led substantially to [his] dismissal, [and] the fact that [the supervisor] did not `pull the trigger' is of little consequence”
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.