Vezzetti v. Pellegrini’s Empirical Analysis
22 F.3d 483 · 1994
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 84 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably Kaluczky v. City of White Plains (1995), Lewis v. Cowen (1999)
34 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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 Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Mt. Healthy City School District Board of Education v. Doyle · Elrod v. Burns · Branti v. Finkel
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 84 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“These factors include whether the employee (1) is exempt from civil service protection, (2) has some technical competence or expertise, (3) controls others, (4) is authorized to speak in the name of policymakers, (5) is perceived as a policymaker by the public, (6) influences government programs, (7) has contact with elected officials, and (8) is responsive to partisan politics and political leaders.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[P]olitical affiliation is an appropriate [job] requirement where there is a rational connection between shared ideology and job performance,”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“an exhaustive list of indicators, nor is any one factor or group of them always dispositive.”
4 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.