Bryson v. Chicago State University’s Empirical Analysis
96 F.3d 912 · 1996
Citation profile
40 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 77 later decisions — most recently September 2017 · most notably Venters v. City of Delphi (1997), Bowman v. Shawnee State University (2000)
40 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 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 Meritor Savings Bank, FSB v. Vinson · Henson v. City of Dundee · Smart v. Ball State University · Katz v. Dole · Collins v. State
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 77 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature constitute sexual harassment when (1) submission to such conduct is made either explicitly or implicitly a term or condition of an individual’s employment” [or] “[ (2) ] submission to or rejection of such conduct by an individual is used as the basis for employment decisions affecting such individual.””
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) that she or he is a member of a protected group, (2) the sexual advances were unwelcome, (3) the harassment was sexually motivated, (4) the employee’s reaction to the supervisor’s advances affected a tangible aspect of her employment, and (5) re-spondeat superior has been established.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“occurs in situations where submission to sexual demands is made a condition of tangible employment benefits.”
3 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.