Nekolny v. Painter’s Empirical Analysis
653 F.2d 1164 · 1981
Citation profile
138 federal appellate · 16 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 309 later decisions — most recently July 2020 · most notably 142 Ill. 2d 495 - Fellhauer v. City of Geneva (1991), Rakovich v. Wade (1988)
138 federal appellate · 16 district · 14 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 Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Texas Department of Community Affairs v. Burdine · Mt. Healthy City School District Board of Education v. Doyle · Monroe v. Pape · Elrod v. Burns
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 309 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The test is whether the position held by the individual authorizes, either directly or indirectly, meaningful input into government decisionmaking on issues where there is room for principled disagreement on goals or their implementation.”
24 later decisions quote this exact passage“party affiliation is an appropriate requirement for the effective performance of the public office involved.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a] disgruntled employee fired for legitimate reasons would not be able to satisfy his burden merely by showing that he carried the political card of the opposition party or that he favored the defendant's opponent in the election.”
6 later decisions 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.