Samuelson v. Durkee/French/Airwick’s Empirical Analysis
976 F.2d 1111 · 1992
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently December 2021 · most notably Gleason v. Mesirow Financial, Inc. (1997), Johnson v. University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire (1995)
13 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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 · Oliver v. Digital Equipment Corp. · Perez v. Jones · Oxman v. WLS-TV
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“for an employer to discriminate against any of his employees ... because he has opposed any practice made an unlawful employment practice by this subchapter, or because he has made a charge, testified, assisted or participated in any manner in an investigation, proceeding or hearing under this subehapter.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“(1) they have no basis in fact, or (2) they did not actually motivate the employer's decision, or (3) they were insufficient to motivate the discharge.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“either that a discriminatory reasons more likely than not motivated the employer or that the employer's proffered explanation is incredible.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.