Bryant v. Locklear’s Empirical Analysis

1996

Citation profile

cited by 7 later decisions

February 2004

most recently cited

Relationships

Applies 29 U.S.C. § 630 (§ 11 of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967) · 42 U.S.C. § 1981A · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 701 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)

Relies on Conley v. Gibson · Kentucky v. Graham · Ferguson v. St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Co. · Penn v. Parke State Bank · Carballo v. United States

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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

“A complaining party may recover punitive damages ... against a respondent ( other than a government, government agency or political subdivision ) if the complaining party demonstrates that the respondent engaged in a discriminatory practice ... with malice or with reckless indifference to the federally protected rights of an aggrieved individual.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. 171 F. Supp. 2d 585 - Morley v. NC, HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
“a person engaged in an industry affecting commerce who has twenty or more employees... [and] any agent of such person ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. 16 F. Supp. 2d 632 - Chung v. BNR, Inc./Northern Telecom, Inc.

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.