Smith v. Allen Health Systems

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that “two events [being] extremely close in time ... is sufficient, but barely so, to establish causation, completing [the plaintiffl’s prima facie case”
• holding that a two-week interval was “barely” sufficient to establish causation in a claim under the FMLA
• holding that thirteen days between exercising rights and the adverse employment action was “sufficient, but barely so, to establish causation”
• holding that the plaintiff failed to show pretext through evidence of inconsistent reasons for the decision when the employer “did not back off from the original explanation”
• explaining that pointing out additional aspects of the same behavior is not probative of pretext
• finding that a temporal gap of two weeks was sufficient to show prima facie causation

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Samuel Stallings v. Hussmann Corporation Brian Groninger
  Eighth Circuit· 2006-05-12· cited 296×
• Wierman v. Casey's General Stores
  Eighth Circuit· 2011-03-31· cited 252×
• Hervey v. County of Koochiching
  Eighth Circuit· 2008-06-09· cited 179×
• Arteaga v. Brink's, Inc.
  California Court of Appeal· 2008-05-28· cited 173×
• Carla Rodgers v. U.S. Bank, N.A.
  Eighth Circuit· 2005-08-05· cited 141×
• Colburn v. Parker Hannifin/Nichols Portland Division
  First Circuit· 2005-11-18· cited 137×
• Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Kohler Company, D/B/A Sterling Plumbing Group, Inc.
  Eighth Circuit· 2003-09-12· cited 137×
• Wallace v. Dtg Operations, Inc.
  Eighth Circuit· 2006-03-29· cited 130×
• Phillips v. Mathews
  Eighth Circuit· 2008-11-18· cited 124×
• Jane E. Stewart v. Independent School District No. 196
  Eighth Circuit· 2007-04-06· cited 116×
• Sheila E. Peterson v. Scott County Scott County Sheriff's Department William J. Nevin, Sheriff Tom Helmrich, Jail Administrator
  Eighth Circuit· 2005-05-06· cited 113×
• Barbara Logan v. Liberty Healthcare Corporation, D/B/A Arkansas Partnership Program
  Eighth Circuit· 2005-09-07· cited 102×
• Denise R. Hite v. Vermeer Manufacturing Company Rick Leedom
  Eighth Circuit· 2006-05-09· cited 98×
• Morris v. City of Chillicothe
  Eighth Circuit· 2008-01-14· cited 97×
• Dorman Hartley v. Dillard's, Inc.
  Eighth Circuit· 2002-12-20· cited 81×
• Lewis v. St. Cloud State University
  Eighth Circuit· 2006-10-31· cited 79×
• Mary Sisk v. Picture People, Inc.
  Eighth Circuit· 2012-02-28· cited 69×
• Smith v. Fairview Ridges Hospital
  Eighth Circuit· 2010-10-27· cited 63×
• Darold Maxfield v. Cintas Corporation No. 2
  Eighth Circuit· 2005-10-31· cited 56×
• Randy Bennett v. Riceland Foods
  Eighth Circuit· 2013-07-19· cited 56×

Cites

16 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green
  Supreme Court· 1973-05-14· cited 38,518×
• Reeves v. Sanderson Plumbing Products, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 2000-06-12· cited 12,455×
• Clark County School District v. Breeden
  Supreme Court· 2001-04-23· cited 3,456×
• Paul J. Kiel v. Select Artificials, Inc.
  Eighth Circuit· 1999-03-04· cited 456×
• Richard HARVEY, Appellant, v. ANHEUSER-BUSCH, INC., Appellee
  Eighth Circuit· 1994-10-17· cited 265×
• Paula A. Kipp, Appellee/cross-Appellant v. Missouri Highway and Transportation Commission, Appellant/cross-Appellee
  Eighth Circuit· 2002-02-20· cited 235×
• William J. Sprenger v. Federal Home Loan Bank of Des Moines
  Eighth Circuit· 2001-06-15· cited 169×
• William E. Gagnon, Jr. v. Sprint Corporation, Doing Business as Sprint Spectrum Finance Corporation, Doing Business as Sprint Pcs
  Eighth Circuit· 2002-05-22· cited 116×
• Nancy J. Kobrin v. University of Minnesota the Regents of the University of Minnesota
  Eighth Circuit· 1994-09-09· cited 105×
• Robert E. Erickson v. Farmland Industries, Inc., a Missouri Corporation
  Eighth Circuit· 2001-11-14· cited 102×
• Helen J.M. Bassett v. City of Minneapolis
  Eighth Circuit· 2000-04-12· cited 101×
• Jane M. Foster v. Time Warner Entertainment Company, L.P.
  Eighth Circuit· 2001-05-24· cited 97×
• James Scroggins v. University of Minnesota the University of Minnesota Police Department
  Eighth Circuit· 2000-08-02· cited 92×
• Katie M. Bradley v. Sheila E. Widnall, Secretary of the Air Force
  Eighth Circuit· 2000-11-13· cited 80×
• Sandra Smith v. Ashland, Inc., a Kentucky Corporation, Doing Business as Ashland Petroleum, Formerly Known as Ashland Oil & Refining Company
  Eighth Circuit· 2001-05-18· cited 40×
• Candis Smith v. Allen Health Systems
  Eighth Circuit· 2002-09-11· cited 1×