Lowe v. Jb Hunt Transport Inc’s Empirical Analysis
963 F.2d 173 · 1992
Citation profile
87 federal appellate · 17 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 169 later decisions — most recently July 2018 · most notably LeBlanc v. Great American Insurance (1993), Tyndall v. National Education Centers, Inc. (1994)
87 federal appellate · 17 district · 15 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Texas Department of Community Affairs v. Burdine · Bourjaily v. United States · Rosene v. United States · South Dakota ex rel. Aurora v. Olgilvie · Robinson v. Consolidated Service Corp.
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 169 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is simply incredible, in light of the weakness of plaintiff's evidence otherwise, that the company officials who hired him at age fifty-one had suddenly developed an aversion to older people less than two years later.”
17 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'whether the evidence ... was sufficient to justify a reasonable jury in finding discrimination.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sims v. Kca Inc · Honce v. Vigil“though not themselves, logically inconsistent with age as a motive, were too weak to justify a rational inference of discrimination when viewed against the undisputed background facts.”
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.