Kotcher v. Rosa & Sullivan Appliance Center, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
957 F.2d 59 · 1992
Citation profile
71 federal appellate · 24 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 317 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2023 · most notably Faragher v. City of Boca Raton (1998), Burlington Industries, Inc. v. Ellerth (1998)
71 federal appellate · 24 district · 14 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 · Wrenn v. Gould · Sumner v. United States Postal Service · W.F. Development Corp. v. Office of the United States Trustee · Cruz LOPEZ, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. S.B. THOMAS, INC., Defendant-Appellee
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 317 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a plaintiff ... prove that the employer either provided no reasonable avenue for complaint or knew of the harassment but did nothing about it”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“either because of gender or because a sexual advance was made by a supervisor and rejected.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“sufficiently severe or pervasive to alter the conditions of the victim's employment and create an abusive working environment,”
5 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.