Spence v. Maryland Casualty Co.’s Empirical Analysis
995 F.2d 1147 · 1993
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 17 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 161 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably Gallo v. Prudential Residential Services, Ltd. Partnership (1994), Goenaga v. March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation (1995)
25 federal appellate · 17 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 Murphy v. American Home Products Corp. · Donahue v. Windsor Locks Board of Fire Commissioners · Dade v. Cannatella · Ramseur v. Chase Manhattan Bank · Kotcher v. Rosa & Sullivan Appliance Center, Inc.
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 161 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a claim.of constructive discharge must be dismissed as a matter of law unless the evidence is sufficient to permit a rational trier of fact to infer that the employer deliberately created working conditions that were “so difficult or unpleasant that a reasonable person in the employee’s shoes would have felt compelled to resign.””
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) that he was within the protected age group, (2) that he was qualified for the position, (3) that he was discharged, and (4) that the discharge occurred under circumstances giving rise to an inference of age discrimination.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A] constructive discharge cannot be proven merely by evidence that an employee ... preferred not to continue working for that employer”
3 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.