Larou v. Ridlon’s Empirical Analysis
98 F.3d 659 · 1996
Citation profile
37 federal appellate · 64 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 106 later decisions — most recently December 2022 · most notably Noviello v. City of Boston (2005), Santa Padilla-Garcia v. Jose Guillermo Rodriguez Municipality of Mayaguez (2000)
37 federal appellate · 64 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 · Branti v. Finkel · Rutan v. Republican Party of Illinois · Correa-Martinez v. Arrillaga-Belendez · Fertel-Rust v. Milwaukee Police Department
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 106 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he burden then shifts to the defendant official to articulate a nondiscriminatory basis for the adverse employment action, and prove by a preponderance of the evidence that the adverse action would have been taken regardless of any discriminatory political motivation.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'unsupported and speculative assertions regarding political discrimination'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“1) [T]ake something of consequence from an employee, by discharging or demoting her, reducing her salary, or divesting her of significant responsibilities; or 2) withhold from an employee an accoutrement of the employment relationship, by failing to follow a customary practice of considering her for promotion after a particular period of service.”
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.