Garcia v. Reeves County’s Empirical Analysis
32 F.3d 200 · 1994
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably Brady v. Fort Bend County (1998), Brooks v. George County (1996)
14 federal appellate · 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Mt. Healthy City School District Board of Education v. Doyle · Elrod v. Burns · Village of Arlington Heights v. Metropolitan Housing Development Corp.
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the exceptional class of public servants of whom political allegiance may be demanded.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“were unemployed by operation of law on January 1, 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.