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because she is a woman

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Definitions from Case Law

From 532 U.S. 223 - James Alexander Director Alabama Department of Public Safetys v. Martha Sandoval · 2001Most cited · 164 citing opinions

both intentional and disparate-impact claims should have made it clear that the reasoning in the opinion was equally applicable to both types of claims.

How often courts cite the case defining “because she is a woman”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “because she is a woman” — 453 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.