Carr v. United Parcel Service

How courts have described this case

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

• Holding that the elements of a supervisor hostile environment claim are the same as those in a coworker hostile environment claim.
• “Failure to act or mere presence during the commission of a tort is insufficient for tort accomplice liability.”
• supervisor can be held liable under an aiding or abetting hostile work environment theory for “encouraging or preventing the employer from taking corrective action”
• “civil liability for aiding and abetting requires affirmative conduct. Failure to act or mere presence during the commission of a tort is insufficient for tort accomplice liability.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

34 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• PNC Multifamily Capital Institutional Fund XXVI Limited Partnership v. Bluff City Community Development Corporation
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2012-05-04· cited 116×
• Vivian v. Madison
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1999-10-13· cited 111×
• Brown v. Board of Education
  W.D. Tennessee· 2014-09-15· cited 109×
• Parker v. Warren County Utility District
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1999-09-07· cited 61×
• Spann v. Abraham
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 1999-11-05· cited 55×
• Washington v. Robertson County
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2000-10-02· cited 41×
• Allen v. McPhee
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2007-12-04· cited 40×
• Mitch Goree v. United Parcel Service, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2015-10-08· cited 35×
• Jim Ferguson v. Middle Tennessee State University
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2014-10-29· cited 30×
• Payne v. US Airways, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2009-09-25· cited 24×
• Laschinski T. Emerson v. Oak Ridge Research, Inc. a/k/a Oak Ridge Realty Holding, Inc. and Nathaniel Revis
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2005-10-05· cited 20×
• Rhea v. Dollar Tree Stores, Inc.
  W.D. Tennessee· 2005-02-02· cited 12×
• DeSoto v. Board of Parks & Recreation
  M.D. Tennessee· 2014-11-25· cited 12×
• In Re Welding Fume Products Liability Litigation
  N.D. Ohio· 2007-10-30· cited 11×
• Pigott v. Battle Ground Academy
  M.D. Tennessee· 2012-11-15· cited 9×
• Matthews v. Eichorn Motors, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Minnesota· 2011-07-11· cited 8×
• Reagan v. City of Knoxville
  E.D. Tennessee· 2010-02-10· cited 7×
• Strong v. HMA Fentress County General Hospital, LLC
  M.D. Tennessee· 2016-07-12· cited 7×
• Thompson v. City of Memphis
  Sixth Circuit· 2004-01-12· cited 7×
• Delozier v. Bradley County Board of Education
  E.D. Tennessee· 2014-09-04· cited 5×