Rodriques v. Furtado’s Empirical Analysis
950 F.2d 805 · 1991
Citation profile
49 federal appellate · 20 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 92 later decisions — most recently June 2024 · most notably Maldonado-Denis v. Castillo-Rodriguez (1994), Watterson v. Page (1993)
49 federal appellate · 20 district · 5 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 Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Illinois v. Gates · Anderson v. Creighton
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 92 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Summary Judgement is appropriate only if there is no genuine dispute as to material fact and the moving party is entitled to judgment as a matter of law.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“review the record, together with all reasonable inferences therefrom, in the light most favorable to the non-moving party, here appellant.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“'invested with [and ha[d] accepted] the responsibilities of a public official in the public interest.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.