Roure v. Hernandez Colon’s Empirical Analysis
824 F.2d 139 · 1987
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently February 2015 · most notably Kauffman v. Puerto Rico Telephone Co. (1988), Rosario-Torres v. Hernandez-Colon (1989)
24 federal appellate · 4 district ·
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 Mitchell v. Forsyth · Mt. Healthy City School District Board of Education v. Doyle · Branti v. Finkel · De Abadia v. Izquierdo Mora · Mendez-Palou v. Rohena-Betancourt
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Defendants' position that the appointments were void, even if correct as a matter of Puerto Rico law, does not establish that defendants are entitled to qualified immunity with respect to plaintiffs' First Amendment claims.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“on the basis of standards foreign to that category,”
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.