Konowitz v. Schnadig Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
965 F.2d 230 · 1992
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently January 2012 · most notably Crady v. Liberty National Bank & Trust Co. (1993), Courtney v. Biosound, Inc. (1994)
34 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
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green · In re Disbarment of Gonzales · La Montagne v. American Convenience Products, Inc. · Dale v. Chicago Tribune Co.
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]e do “not sit as a super-personnel department that reexamines an entity’s business decisions.” ... “No matter how medieval a firm’s practices, no matter how high-handed its decisional process, no matter how mistaken the firm’s managers, [the ADEA does] not interfere.” ... Rather, our inquiry is limited to “whether the employer gave an honest explanation of its behavior.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“that he was: (1) in a protected class; (2) performing the job satisfactorily; (3) nevertheless the subject of a materially adverse employment action; and (4) others outside of thé protected class were treated more favorably.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“after drawing all reasonable inferences in favor of the non-moving party, there is no genuine issue of material fact and the moving party is entitled to judgment as a matter of law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Dahm v. Flynn
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.