Sanchez-Lopez v. Fuentes-Pujols’s Empirical Analysis
375 F.3d 121 · 2004
Citation profile
38 federal appellate · 24 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 77 later decisions — most recently April 2021 · most notably Ocasio-Hernández v. Fortuño-Burset (2011), McDonough v. City of Quincy (2006)
38 federal appellate · 24 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 Mt. Healthy City School District Board of Education v. Doyle · Elrod v. Burns · Branti v. Finkel · Rutan v. Republican Party of Illinois · Crawford-El v. Britton
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 77 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]f uniformly applied personnel practices, predicated on legitimate reasons, result in terminations, those terminations are not unconstitutional because those affiliated with one political party are disproportionately impacted. It is in the nature of a change in administrations that job actions by the new party in power will have a disparate impact on members of the outgoing party.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“there is simply not a claim of `disparate impact' available under this First Amendment doctrine”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he outgoing party attempts to secure the continued tenure of its members in public jobs through a variety of devices, such as reclassifying policy-type appointments as career positions or making appointments in violation of Puerto Rico law.” Sánchez-López v. Fuentes-Pujols, 375 F.3d 121, 124 (1st Cir.2004).”
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.