Galloza v. Foy’s Empirical Analysis
389 F.3d 26 · 2004
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 74 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 101 later decisions — most recently April 2020 · most notably Maymí v. Puerto Rico Ports Authority (2008), Cordi-Allen v. Conlon (2007)
21 federal appellate · 74 district ·
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 Cleveland Board of Education v. Loudermill · Elrod v. Burns · Branti v. Finkel · Medina-Munoz v. Rj Reynolds Tobacco Company · Garside v. Osco Drug, Inc.
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 101 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the relative compensation level for the position, the technical expertise (if any) required to do the job, the extent to which the position involves supervision and control over others, the degree to which the position confers authority to speak in the name of higher-ups who themselves are policymakers, the influence of the position over programs and policy initiatives, and the public perception of what the position entails.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“an appropriate requirement for the effective performance of the public office involved,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“relative pay, technical competence, power to control others, authority to speak in the name of policymakers, public perception, influence on programs, contact with elected officials, ... responsiveness to partisan politics and political leaders ... [and] responsibilities that are not well defined or are of broad scope.”
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.