Regan v. Boogertman’s Empirical Analysis
984 F.2d 577 · 1993
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 79 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably Kaluczky v. City of White Plains (1995), Heublein, Inc. v. United States (1993)
31 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 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 Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Pickering v. Board of Education of Township High School District 205 Will County Illinois · Elrod v. Burns · Branti v. Finkel · Rutan v. Republican Party of Illinois
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 79 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a rational connection between shared ideology and job performance.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“There is no likely circumstance in which a shared ideology is more important than when an elected official appoints a deputy who may act in his or her stead.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“New York has considered many of the same criteria for non-civil service status as does a court in determining whether a position is exempt from First Amendment protection.”
4 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.