Christopher Lizzi v. Robert Alexander’s Empirical Analysis
255 F.3d 128 · 2001
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 8 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2021 · most notably Nevada Department of Human Resources v. Hibbs (2003), Coleman v. Maryland Court of Appeals (2010)
15 federal appellate · 8 district · 8 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
Relies on Edelman v. Jordan · Pennhurst State School and Hospital v. Halderman · Seminole Tribe of Florida v. Florida · Buckhannon Board and Care Home Incs v. West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources · Hafer v. Melo
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In making [its] finding of purpose, Congress did not identify, as it is required to do, any pattern of gender discrimination by the states with respect to the granting of employment leave for the purpose of providing family or medical care”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Notably absent is any finding concerning the existence, much less the prevalence, in public employment of personal sick leave practices that amounted to intentional gender discrimination in violation of the Equal Protection Clause”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“be understood as responsive to, or designed to prevent, unconstitutional behavior.”
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.