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Bryant v. Gates’s Empirical Analysis

532 F.3d 888 · 2008

Citation profile

39
cited by 39 later decisions
April 2025
most recently cited

19 federal appellate · 4 district ·

Relationships

Relies on Buckley v. Valeo · Grayned v. City of Rockford · Perry Education Ass'n v. Perry Local Educators' Ass'n · Feres v. United States · Parker v. Levy

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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[i]t is not enough merely to mention a possible argument in the most skeletal way, leaving the court to do counsel’s work” (internal quotation marks omitted)); N.Y. Rehab. Care Mgmt., LLC v. NLRB, 506 F.3d 1070 , 1076 (D.C.Cir.2007). 2 . See 42 U.S.C. § 2000e-2(a) (making it unlawful”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “person of ordinary intelligence a reasonable opportunity to know what is prohibited.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “it is not clear whether the vagueness doctrine applies ... at all”
    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.