Wu v. Thomas E G’s Empirical Analysis
996 F.2d 271 · 1993
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently February 2023 · most notably Davis v. Town of Lake Park (2001), Morris v. Oldham County Fiscal Court (2000)
21 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 Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Anderson v. Creighton · Meritor Savings Bank, FSB v. Vinson · Liljeberg v. Health Services Acquisition Corp. · Osterneck v. Ernst & Whinney
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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“establish the proposition that every unkind act, even those without economic consequences, can violate Title VII”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“we cannot find any case that clearly established that retaliatory harassment, as opposed to sexual or racial harassment, could violate Title VII where the employer caused the employee no tangible harm, such as loss of salary, benefits or position”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“against a protected employee. That all hostile acts are wrongful is not plain from this language. Although we have interpreted Title VII to mean that an employer cannot retaliate by taking an”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wu v. Thomas
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.