Garrett v. Barnes’s Empirical Analysis
961 F.2d 629 · 1992
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently May 2024 · most notably Byrne v. Board of Education (1992), Shanahan v. City of Chicago (1996)
19 federal appellate · 2 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 Mt. Healthy City School District Board of Education v. Doyle · Perry v. Sindermann · Elrod v. Burns · Northern Pipeline Construction Co. v. Marathon Pipe Line Co. · Ohio State Board of Education v. Reed
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'where the evidence, along with the inferences to be reasonably drawn therefrom, when viewed in the light most favorable to the party opposing such motion, is such that reasonable men in a fair and impartial exercise of their judgment may reach different conclusions.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[Nelms] could be fired for a good reason or for no reason at all, as long as he was not fired because of his constitutionally protected activities.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“re-organization is a legitimate reason to terminate someone who is performing satisfactorily”
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.