Blair v. Meade’s Empirical Analysis
76 F.3d 97 · 1996
Citation profile
24 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently February 2018 · most notably McCloud v. Testa (1996), Brenda Mattox and Dona Hollys v. City of Forest Park (1999)
24 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
Relies on Siegert v. Gilley · Johnson v. Jones · Branti v. Finkel · Hebert v. Brown · Faughender v. City of North Olmsted
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] necessary concomitant to the determination of whether the constitutional right asserted by a plaintiff is 'clearly established' at the time the defendant acted is the determination of whether the plaintiff has asserted a violation of a constitutional right at all.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“If this examination reveals that the position is inherently political in nature, then political affiliation is an appropriate requirement for the job.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'duties that the new holder of that position will perform,'”
2 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.