Shirley v. Chrysler First, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
970 F.2d 39 · 1992
Citation profile
61 federal appellate · 2 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 153 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably Long v. Eastfield College (1996), Mattern v. Eastman Kodak Co. (1997)
61 federal appellate · 2 district · 7 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 29 U.S.C. § 623 (§ 4 of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 703 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 704 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on Crisp v. Rubin · In re Disbarment of Gonzales · Yamamoto v. United States · Mitchell v. Baldrige · Hollander v. American Cyanamid 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 153 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Front pay is awarded to compensate the plaintiff for lost future wages and benefits.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) that he engaged in activity protected by the ADEA; (2) that an adverse employment action occurred; and (3) that a causal link between the participation in the protected activity and the adverse employment decision exists,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“cases interpreting the latter provision are frequently relied upon in interpreting the former.”
2 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.