Miguel Perez v. Dr. Ismael Rodriguez Bou, Miguel Perez v. University of Puerto Rico’s Empirical Analysis
575 F.2d 21 · 1978
Citation profile
46 federal appellate · 32 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 105 later decisions — most recently November 2015 · most notably Larry Nadeau v. Raymond A. Helgemoe, Warden, New Hampshire State Prison (1978), Lipsett v. University of Puerto Rico (1988)
46 federal appellate · 32 district · 7 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 · Mt. Healthy City School District Board of Education v. Doyle · Edelman v. Jordan · Alyeska Pipeline Service Company v. Wilderness Society · Carey v. Piphus
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 105 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he extent and nature of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico’s financial support for the University of Puerto Rico and the fact that the Commonwealth appoints the governing body of the University convinces us that the University is sufficiently an “arm” of the state ... to be immune from damages under the eleventh amendment. (Citations omitted.)”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Attorney's fees are, of course, to be awarded to attorneys employed by a public interest firm or organization on the same basis as to a private practitioner.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“courts are not inclined to award compensatory damages for general mental distress.”
2 later decisions 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.