Kolman v. Sheahan’s Empirical Analysis
31 F.3d 429 · 1994
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently May 2014
14 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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 Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Conley v. Gibson · Cleveland Board of Education v. Loudermill · 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“beyond doubt that [the plaintiff] can prove no set of facts in support of his claim which would entitle him to relief.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“), 29 U.S.C. Sec. 621, et seq. 8 The defendants filed a motion to dismiss, arguing that Americanos' complaint failed to state a claim upon which relief could be granted, Fed.R.Civ.P. 12(b)(6), which the district court granted. Americanos appeals. II. ISSUES 9 Americanos appeals two issues: (1) whether the district court committed error when it determined that the position of DAG is one for which political party affiliation is an appropriate requirement for the effective performance of the DAG's duties; and (2) whether the court committed error when it found that a DAG is not an”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Americanos v. Carter“that Branti has produced a 'shambles' of 'inconsistent and unpredictable results,' " the district court held that, as a general matter, "patronage dismissal law was not clearly established in 1993.”
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.