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← 62 MASSAPPCT 352 - Falcon v. Leger

Falcon v. Leger’s Empirical Analysis

2004

Citation profile

15
cited by 15 later decisions
2
states following
January 2025
most recently cited

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

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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.

  1. “even though the employee['s] actions may be considered appropriate and 'socially desirable.'”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “[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.