Strahan v. Kirkland’s Empirical Analysis
287 F.3d 821 · 2002
Citation profile
8 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently June 2021
8 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 Mt. Healthy City School District Board of Education v. Doyle · Balint v. Carson City · Gilbrook v. City of Westminster · Keyser v. Sacramento City Unified School District · Weiner v. San Diego County
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Even if the ultimate decision-maker can establish that the adverse action was not in retaliation for protected conduct, a subordinate with a retaliatory motive can be liable 'if an improper motive sets in motion the events that lead to termination that would not otherwise occur.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“must determine, viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the nonmoving party, whether the district court correctly applied the relevant substantive law and whether there are any genuine issues of material fact.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lyons v. England
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.