Garcia v. Barcelo’s Empirical Analysis
671 F.2d 1 · 1982
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 28 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2015 · most notably Rodriguez v. Popular Democratic Party (1982), Standard Poor's Corporation Inc v. Commodity Exchange Inc (1982)
5 federal appellate · 28 district · 1 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 Elrod v. Burns · San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez · Reynolds v. Sims · Branti v. Finkel · Williams v. Rhodes
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“One might argue, as a matter of form, that appointment by a governor is indeed more 'democratic' because the governor is himself elected. Yet in practice this is not likely to be so when the governor and former representative are of different parties. In that case the party difference is likely to produce successors of different parties. In such circumstances, we see how the framers of a state constitution might conclude that party selection is more likely to reflect the will of the voters than selection by the governor, for it was the former representative's party, not that of the governor, that won the prior seat. Such a judgment, reflecting a knowledge of political practice, seems perfectly consistent with the basic democratic role of the modern political party—translating the individual wills of myriad voters into a practically achievable program administered by a government that can be held responsible for its performance at the polls.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“where the harm to plaintiffs is particularly severe and disproportionate”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“inter-partisan political campaigns to once every four years.”
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.