Maceira v. Pagan’s Empirical Analysis
649 F.2d 8 · 1981
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 16 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2025 · most notably Finnegan v. Leu (1982), United Food & Commercial Workers Union, Local 1099 v. Southwest Ohio Regional Transit Authority (1998)
13 federal appellate · 16 district ·
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 29 U.S.C. § 411 · 29 U.S.C. § 412 · 29 U.S.C. § 501 · 29 U.S.C. § 529
Relies on Elrod v. Burns · Doran v. Salem Inn, Inc. · Lombard v. Marcera · Southern Railway Co. v. North Carolina · Examining Board of Engineers v. de Otero
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is well established that the loss of first amendment freedoms constitutes irreparable injury.”
3 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.