Mercado-Alicea v. P.R. Tourism Co.’s Empirical Analysis
396 F.3d 46 · 2005
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 25 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently March 2024 · most notably Cepero-Rivera v. Fagundo (2005), Peguero-Moronta v. Santiago (2006)
14 federal appellate · 25 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 Mt. Healthy City School District Board of Education v. Doyle · Cleveland Board of Education v. Loudermill · Logan v. Zimmerman Brush Co. · 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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Assuming proof of unlawful discrimination, the burden then shifts to the defen dant, who must establish by a preponderance of the evidence, that he would have taken the same action regardless of the plaintiffs political beliefs ... Thus, ‘even if a plaintiff meets his or her initial burden of showing that political affiliation was a motivating factor for an employment decision, that is insufficient to establish discrimination as a matter of law because the plaintiffs case at that point does not distinguish[ ] between a result caused by a constitutional violation and one not so caused.’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“District courts are not required to ferret through sloppy records in search of evidence supporting a party’s case.”); cf. Carrasquillo v. Puerto Rico, through Its Justice Dep't, 494 F.3d 1 , 4 (1st Cir.2007)(”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“conditions imposed by the employer had become so onerous, abusive, or unpleasant that a reasonable person in the employee's position would have felt compelled to resign.”
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.