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Diaz v. Brewer’s Empirical Analysis

656 F.3d 1008 · 2011

Citation profile

18
cited by 18 later decisions
2
states following
November 2018
most recently cited

1 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 state decisions

Relationships

Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1292

Relies on Ashcroft v. Iqbal · Ex Parte: Edward T Young · City of Cleburne Texas v. Cleburne Living Center · Winter v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Eisenstadt v. Baird

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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “savings depend upon distinguishing between homosexual and heterosexual employees, similarly situated ... such a distinction cannot survive rational basis review.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
  2. “a bare...desire to harm a politically unpopular group [is] not [a] legitimate state interest”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence

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.