Gomez v. Pima County’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently August 2014
2 federal appellate · 3 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 Scheuer v. Rhodes · Wood v. Strickland · United States v. L. A. Tucker Truck Lines, Inc. · McDonald v. Santa Fe Trail Transportation Co. · Jones v. Nor-Tex Agencies, 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This court concludes that Mexican-American/Spanish-Surnamed individuals of brown race or color who allege that they have been discriminated against because of that race or color have stated a claim for relief under ... Section 1981, but have no claim under Section 1981 for discrimination based upon national origin.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Many cases hold that Section 1981 does not reach discrimination based on national origin, sex, or any grounds other than race; but they do not involve Mexican-Americans or Puerto Ricans, and they do not involve any allegation that the discrimination was based on race." [Emphasis supplied by this court.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““[I]t is hard to contend that the Circuit Court will hold that the plaintiffs must be strictly non-caucasian in order to contend that they are not given the same employment opportunities as ‘white citizens.’[1]” At 819.”
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.