Segar v. Mukasey’s Empirical Analysis
508 F.3d 16 · 2007
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 17 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably Hoyte v. American National Red Cross (2008), In re Fannie Mae Securities Litigation (2009)
11 federal appellate · 17 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 701 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964) · 5 U.S.C. § 3151
Relies on Rufo v. Inmates of Suffolk County Jail · Mastrobuono v. Shearson Lehman Hutton, Inc. · United States v. ITT Continental Baking Co. · Freeman v. Pitts · Segar v. Smith
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is reasonably susceptible of different constructions.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“construction ... is essentially a matter of contract law.”
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.