Meeks v. Grimes’s Empirical Analysis
779 F.2d 417 · 1985
Citation profile
60 federal appellate · 6 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 107 later decisions — most recently February 2021 · most notably Arnaldo Jimenez Fuentes v. Honorable Jaime Torres Gaztambide (1986), Lohorn v. Michal (1990)
60 federal appellate · 6 district · 3 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 Perry v. Sindermann · Elrod v. Burns · Sherbert v. Verner · Branti v. Finkel · Keyishian v. Board of Regents of Univ. of State of NY
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 107 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“integral part of [his] daily routine....”
17 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a State demonstrates a compelling interest in infringing First Amendment rights only when it can show that 'party affiliation is an appropriate requirement for the effective performance of the public office involved'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]t is impossible to generalize about the nature of an individual type of position, such as bailiff or secretary; job responsibilities and duties can vary greatly between different governmental units or even within a governmental unit. For example, the plaintiffs are classified under the general heading of bailiffs but their responsibilities differed substantially. For this reason the test under Branti must be applied to each individual office, and status under that formulation is left to the trier of fact to be determined.”
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.