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Watson v. Rozum’s Empirical Analysis

834 F.3d 417 · 2016

Citation profile

12
cited by 12 later decisions
June 2024
most recently cited

3 federal appellate · 1 district ·

Relationships

Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))

Relies on Mt. Healthy City School District Board of Education v. Doyle · Turner v. Safley · Superintendent Massachusetts Correctional Institution Walpole v. Hill · Thornburgh v. Abbott · Michael Malik Allah v. Thomas Seiverling

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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “an unusually suggestive temporal proximity between the protected activity and the allegedly retaliatory action,”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “a pattern of antagonism coupled with timing that suggests a causal link.”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “from the evidence gleaned from the record as a whole.”
    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.