Baker v. Hadley’s Empirical Analysis
167 F.3d 1014 · 1999
Citation profile
5 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently May 2015
5 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Elrod v. Burns · Branti v. Finkel · Flagg Brothers Inc v. Brooks J Lefkowitz · LaPointe v. United Autoworkers Local 600 · Musson Theatrical, Inc. v. Federal Express 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We imposed only one requirement on a newly-elected official seeking to transform previously ministerial positions into confidential or policymaking ones: the official must act 'with a good faith belief that such a transformation is necessary to implementhis policies.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“with a good faith belief that such a transformation is necessary to implement [their] policies.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“confidential, policymaking jobs for which political affiliation was an appropriate requirement”
1 later decision 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.