59 Fair empl.prac.cas. (Bna) 588, 59 Empl. Prac. Dec. P 41,633 Melvin Hicks v. St. Mary's Honor Center, Division of Adult Institutions of the Department of Corrections and Human Resources of the State of Missouri, Steve Long’s Empirical Analysis
970 F.2d 487 · 1992
Citation profile
36 federal appellate · 5 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably St. Mary's Honor Center v. Hicks (1993), Hazen Paper Co. v. Biggins (1993)
36 federal appellate · 5 district · 5 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 McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green · Texas Department of Community Affairs v. Burdine · United States Postal Service Board of Governors v. Aikens · Furnco Construction Corp. v. Waters · Joseph v. United States
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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'no additional proof of discrimination is required.'”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[o]nce plaintiff proved all of defendants' proffered reasons to be pretextual, plaintiff was entitled to judgment as a matter of law.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“although [respondent] has proven the existence of a crusade to terminate him, he has not proven that the crusade was racially rather than personally motivated.”
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.