Lieberman v. Reisman’s Empirical Analysis
857 F.2d 896 · 1988
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently October 2007 · most notably Agosto-de-Feliciano v. Aponte-Roque (1989), Rutan v. Republican Party of Illinois (1989)
19 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 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. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Conley v. Gibson · Perry v. Sindermann · Elrod v. Burns · Branti v. Finkel · Robb v. City of Philadelphia
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“whenever under color of state law unfavorable action is taken against a person on account of that person's political activities or affiliation.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the constitutional violation is not in the harshness of the sanction applied, but in the imposition of any disciplinary action for the exercise of permissible free speech”
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.