Rosaly v. Ignacio’s Empirical Analysis
593 F.2d 145 · 1979
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 17 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently March 2012 · most notably Loeb v. Textron, Inc. (1979), Arnaldo Jimenez Fuentes v. Honorable Jaime Torres Gaztambide (1986)
30 federal appellate · 17 district · 1 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 Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Mt. Healthy City School District Board of Education v. Doyle · Elrod v. Burns · Givhan v. Western Line Consolidated School District · Ryan v. United States
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Now [defendants] have the [ultimate] burden of proving ... by a preponderance of the evidence ... that they had [a] valid reason for firing the plaintiffs. ****** For the plaintiffs to prevail in [this] case, you must expressly find that they could not have been fired but for their political activity, if they had another ground, an independent ground for their firings then the plaintiffs cannot prevail in this case. [Emphasis supplied].”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wren v. Jones · Elwood v. Pina
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.