Rode v. Dellarciprete’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
4 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently May 2001
4 federal appellate ·
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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 704 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 706 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. · Mt. Healthy City School District Board of Education v. Doyle · Connick v. Myers · Central Hudson Gas Electric Corporation v. Public Service Commission of New York · Memphis Light, Gas & Water Division v. Craft
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he Constitution must not be trivialized by being dragged into every dispute in state and local government.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) transferring her from the Personnel Bureau; (2) assigning her demeaning tasks; (3) failing to provide training and work assignments; (4) making derogatory statements about her to fellow employees; and (5) taking away her office and filing cabinet.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“'not persuaded ... that [a man's] interest in associating with his brother rises to the same level of importance as decisions relating to marriage, childbirth, and childrearing.'”
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.