Nieves-Márquez v. Puerto Rico’s Empirical Analysis
353 F.3d 108 · 2003
Citation profile
47 federal appellate · 126 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 227 later decisions — most recently January 2025 · most notably Constantine v. Rectors and Visitors of George Mason University (2005), Centro Medico del Turabo, Inc. v. Feliciano de Melecio (2005)
47 federal appellate · 126 district · 2 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 Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Ex Parte: Edward T Young · Steel Co. v. Citizens for a Better Environment · Will v. Michigan Department of State Police · Wilson v. Garcia
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 227 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) a substantial likelihood of success on the merits, (2) a significant risk of irreparable harm if the injunction is withheld, (3) a favorable balance of hardships, and (4) a fit (or lack of friction) between the injunction and the public interest.”
26 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“inextricably intertwined with the issue of Eleventh Amendment immunity”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“evidence of economic harm or animus toward the disabled,”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.