Handmaker v. Henney’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
2 district · 95 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 97 later decisions — most recently September 2023 · most notably Romero v. Philip Morris Inc. (2010), Ocana v. American Furniture Co. (2004)
2 district · 95 state decisions
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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Johnson v. Jones · Behrens v. Pelletier · Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. v. Risjord
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 97 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“view[s] the facts in a light most favorable to the party opposing the motion and draw[s] all reasonable inferences in support of a trial on the merits.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“where there are no genuine issues of material fact and the movant is entitled to judgment as a matter of law.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“Additionally, [the University] correctly asserts that in New Mexico there is a presumption that termination from employment is at will unless otherwise agreed upon by the parties, and [the University] thus claims that, because only his position as associate professor was protected by tenure, [the plaintiffs] administrative positions were terminable at will.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.