Woodruff v. Mason’s Empirical Analysis
542 F.3d 545 · 2008
Citation profile
11 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently January 2021 · most notably Bridges v. Gilbert (2009), Gomez v. Randle (2012)
11 federal appellate ·
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. § 1396A (§ 1902 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 704 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on Hudson v. Palmer · Bounds v. Smith · National Association for Advancement of Colored People v. Y Button · Village of Willowbrook v. Olech · California Motor Transport Co. v. Trucking Unlimited
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) it engaged in activity protected by the First Amendment, (2) it suffered a deprivation that would likely deter First Amendment activity in the future, and (3) the First Amendment activity was “at least a motivating factor” in the [Government’s] decision to take the retaliatory action.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“must show 'a causal link between the protected act and the alleged retaliation.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lavite v. Dunstan
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.