523 U.S. 75 (1998) Cited 5,291 times 50 Legal Analyses
Holding that "[w]hatever evidentiary route the plaintiff chooses to follow, he or she must always prove that the conduct at issue was not merely tinged with offensive . . . connotations"
490 U.S. 228 (1989) Cited 4,648 times 162 Legal Analyses
Holding that an employer discriminated on the basis of sex when he "act[ed] on the basis of a belief that a woman cannot be aggressive, or that she must not be"
570 U.S. 693 (2013) Cited 1,010 times 16 Legal Analyses
Holding that proponents of a ballot initiative who "ha[d] no role ... in the enforcement of " the initiative and were not "agents of the State" lacked standing to defend it on appeal
435 U.S. 702 (1978) Cited 561 times 15 Legal Analyses
Holding that an employer's policy requiring female employees to make larger pension fund contributions than male employees was discriminatory on its face in violation of Title VII
Holding the law was clearly established because no reasonable prison guard could have believed it was lawful to "enter the cell of a prisoner ... unzip his pants, expose himself, demand oral sex, and then, after being refused, grab the prisoner, push her up against the bars of the cell, and grind his naked penis into her buttocks"
42 U.S.C. § 2000e-16 Cited 5,027 times 20 Legal Analyses
Adopting provisions of § 2000e-5(f)-(k), including that "[e]ach United States district court . . . shall have jurisdiction of actions brought under this subchapter"