Garcia v. Veneman’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 3 district ·
Relationships
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 1691 (Sherman Antitrust Act) · 15 U.S.C. § 1691E · 28 U.S.C. § 1292 · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 703 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964) · 5 U.S.C. § 701
Relies on International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. United States · Eisen v. Carlisle & Jacquelin · General Telephone Co. of Southwest v. Falcon · Watson v. Fort Worth Bank & Trust · Wards Cove Packing Co. v. Atonio
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[n]ot only does it `leapfrog to the merits,' . . . but it also boils down to the proposition that unexplained discrepancies in the distribution of government benefits satisfy the commonality requirement of Rule 23(a)(2) without more”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Garcia Ga v. Johanns
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.