Thomas v. Carpenter’s Empirical Analysis
881 F.2d 828 · 1989
Citation profile
41 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably Coszalter v. City of Salem (2003), Hyland v. Wonder (1992)
41 federal appellate · 3 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 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 · Pickering v. Board of Education of Township High School District 205 Will County Illinois · Connick v. Myers · Elrod v. Burns · Branti v. Finkel
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`not to the end that effectiveness and efficiency be insured, but to the end that representative government not be undercut by tactics obstructing the implementation of policies of the new administration, policies presumably sanctioned by the electorate.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“'unless it appears to a certainty that the plaintiff would not be entitled to relief under any set of facts that could be proved.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hyland v. Wonder · Hyland v. Wonder“[the defendant's] conduct was motivated by an intent to retaliate for his exercise of constitutionally protected rights.”
2 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.