Falcon v. Leger’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 6 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently January 2025
2 federal appellate · 6 district · 6 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 Gram v. Liberty Mutual Insurance · Wright v. Shriners Hospital for Crippled Children · Poirier v. Town of Plymouth · King v. Driscoll · Harrison v. NetCentric Corp.
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“even though the employee['s] actions may be considered appropriate and 'socially desirable.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[W]e look essentially to the substance of the complaint rather than to whom it is presented.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.