Backlund v. Hessen’s Empirical Analysis
104 F.3d 1031 · 1997
Citation profile
6 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently March 2014
6 federal appellate ·
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Kotch v. Board of River Port Pilot Commissioners · Schweiss v. Chrysler Motors Corp.
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“must connect the challenged hiring criterion to the capacity of the applicant to perform the duties of the job applied for.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“nepotism in government hiring requires some measure of justification before it can pass constitutional muster.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“about the culture of firefighting and of firefighters, or the unique requirements, if any, of the job.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.