Brown v. Vance-Cooks

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• concluding that “[s]ummary judgment should be granted for an employer where an employee cannot demonstrate that every proffered nonretaliatory reason for” an adverse action “was pretextual”
• finding that the plaintiff had “simply not proven that [the employer’s] reasons were pretext”
• noting that the plaintiff failed to dispute his lack of improvement during his performance improvement plan period, and concluding that his omission meant that he could not “demonstrate [the] falsity of the criticisms of his performance”
• “Summary judgment should be granted for an employer where an employee cannot demonstrate that every proffered nonretaliato-ry reason for the termination was pretex-tual.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

3 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Thomas v. District of Columbia
  District of Columbia· 2016-12-30· cited 20×
• Wang v. Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority
  District of Columbia· 2016-07-25
• Hartzler v. Wolf
  District of Columbia· 2022-10-27

Cites

35 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1986-06-25· cited 135,235×
• McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green
  Supreme Court· 1973-05-14· cited 38,518×
• Texas Department of Community Affairs v. Burdine
  Supreme Court· 1981-03-04· cited 15,585×
• Holcomb, Christine v. Powell, Donald
  D.C. Circuit· 2006-01-10· cited 1,529×
• Brady v. Office of the Sergeant at Arms
  D.C. Circuit· 2008-03-28· cited 1,336×
• Etim U. Aka v. Washington Hospital Center
  D.C. Circuit· 1998-10-09· cited 1,302×
• Jones v. Bernanke
  D.C. Circuit· 2009-03-06· cited 725×
• Czekalski, Loni v. Peters, Mary
  D.C. Circuit· 2007-02-02· cited 674×
• George, Diane v. Leavitt, Michael
  D.C. Circuit· 2005-05-17· cited 620×
• Ronald J. Fischbach v. District of Columbia Department of Corrections and Hallem H. Williams, Jr.
  D.C. Circuit· 1996-07-15· cited 586×
• Casper Eugene Harding v. Vincent Gray
  D.C. Circuit· 1993-11-26· cited 539×
• Taylor, Carolyn v. Small, Lawrence M.
  D.C. Circuit· 2003-12-12· cited 422×
• Steele v. Schafer
  D.C. Circuit· 2008-08-01· cited 412×
• Charles DALE, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. CHICAGO TRIBUNE COMPANY, Defendant-Appellee
  Seventh Circuit· 1986-10-06· cited 412×
• Woodruff, Phillip v. Peters, Mary
  D.C. Circuit· 2007-04-06· cited 393×
• Ron G. McCoy v. Wgn Continental Broadcasting Co.
  Seventh Circuit· 1992-02-26· cited 360×
• Moore v. Hartman
  D.C. Circuit· 2009-07-07· cited 345×
• Carter v. George Washington University
  D.C. Circuit· 2004-10-29· cited 281×
• Cones, Kenneth L. v. Shalala, Donna E.
  D.C. Circuit· 2000-01-04· cited 276×
• Forman, Paul v. Small, Lawrence M.
  D.C. Circuit· 2001-11-16· cited 225×