McGurrin Ehrhard v. Connolly’s Empirical Analysis
867 F.2d 92 · 1989
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently May 2005
11 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 Elrod v. Burns · Branti v. Finkel · Arnaldo Jimenez Fuentes v. Honorable Jaime Torres Gaztambide · Rodriguez Rodriguez v. Munoz Munoz · Romero Feliciano v. Torres Gaztambide
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he office deals directly with the public, providing its services on an individual basis. Further, the office provides information, not simply about corporate registrations or state regulations, but about any question that any of the citizens of the state might have about the workings of state government.... [I]t seems less like providing a purely technical government service, such as water or electricity, than like providing direct, person-to-person assistance, the type of “case work” for political constituents that is the very bread and butter of local political life. Finally, the office sought to make members of the public aware that a particular elected official ... had provided the services they had obtained.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Feeney v. Shipley“In light of the important constitutional and governmental interests surrounding the application of the [ Elrod-Branti ] exception, we believe it the kind of legal question that the court, not the jury, is best suited to determine.”
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.