Garza v. Rodriguez’s Empirical Analysis
559 F.2d 259 · 1977
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently June 2007 · most notably Hensgens v. Deere & Co. (1987), McPherson v. Rankin (1984)
16 federal appellate · 3 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Mt. Healthy City School District Board of Education v. Doyle · Perry v. Sindermann · St Paul Mercury Indemnity Co v. Red Cab Co · Chaplinsky v. State of New Hampshire · Moor v. County of Alameda
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“claim First Amendment protection for speech used against him not because of speech itself, but because the speech evidences character traits undesirable in an employee.”
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.