Tafoya v. Adams’s Empirical Analysis
816 F.2d 555 · 1987
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 11 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently November 2012 · most notably Paroline v. Unisys Corp. (1989), Yatvin v. Madison Metropolitan School District (1988)
15 federal appellate · 11 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1981 (Civil Rights Act of 1866) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 701 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 704 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on Alexander v. Gardner-Denver Co. · Great American Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n v. Novotny · Chapman v. Houston Welfare Rights Organization · General Building Contractors Assn., Inc. v. Pennsylvania · Day v. Wayne County Board of Auditors
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'creates only a remedy for violations of rights secured by federal statutory and constitutional law'”
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.