Lisa Peterson v. James Dean

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “[B]udgetary decisions are among the most significant, and the most political, actions which government officials take.”
• “[T]he fact that some duties of the administrator may be classified as ‘ministerial’ does not preclude the determination that other designated duties . . . are policymaking and inherently political tasks.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

6 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Bernice Garza v. Omar Escobar, Jr.
  Fifth Circuit· 2020-08-28· cited 57×
• William Thomas McFarland v. Michael S. Pemberton
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2017-09-20· cited 19×
• Libertarian Party of Ohio v. Degee Wilhem
  Sixth Circuit· 2021-02-10· cited 5×
• Garza v. Escobar
  S.D. Texas· 2019-04-30· cited 5×
• Smallwood v. Cocke Cnty. Gov't
  E.D. Tennessee· 2018-02-07· cited 1×
• William Thomas McFarland v. Michael S. Pemberton
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2015-11-16

Cites

42 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Perry v. Sindermann
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-29· cited 5,238×
• Elrod v. Burns
  Supreme Court· 1976-06-28· cited 4,553×
• Branti v. Finkel
  Supreme Court· 1980-03-31· cited 1,881×
• Rutan v. Republican Party of Illinois
  Supreme Court· 1990-08-30· cited 1,236×
• Shaw v. Reno
  Supreme Court· 1993-06-28· cited 739×
• Gaffney v. Cummings
  Supreme Court· 1973-06-18· cited 507×
• Seeger v. Cincinnati Bell Telephone Co., LLC
  Sixth Circuit· 2012-05-08· cited 500×
• Davis v. Bandemer
  Supreme Court· 1986-06-30· cited 371×
• O'Hare Truck Service, Inc. v. City of Northlake
  Supreme Court· 1996-06-28· cited 352×
• Edward Nekolny, Patrick Dumas, and Maria L. Dahms v. Ann B. Painter, Individually and as Supervisor of Lyons Township, Defendant
  Seventh Circuit· 1981-08-14· cited 297×
• T I Federal Credit Union v. DelBonis
  First Circuit· 1995-12-18· cited 254×
• Wanda Sowards v. Loudon County, Tennessee and Timothy Guider, Individually and in His Official Capacity as Sheriff of Loudon County, Tennessee
  Sixth Circuit· 2000-03-24· cited 192×
• Barbara Faughender v. City of North Olmsted, Ohio and M. Yvonne Petragic, Mayor of the City of North Olmsted
  Sixth Circuit· 1991-03-13· cited 159×
• David M. Mumford v. David A. Basinski
  Sixth Circuit· 1997-03-07· cited 143×
• McCloud v. Testa
  Sixth Circuit· 1996-10-21· cited 140×
• Hall v. Tollett
  Sixth Circuit· 1997-10-22· cited 125×
• Esly B. Williams v. City of River Rouge, Daniel Cooney, Michael Bowdler, Danny Stevens, and Charles Prather
  Sixth Circuit· 1990-07-16· cited 110×
• McConnell v. Adams
  Fourth Circuit· 1987-10-01· cited 102×
• Mary Patrick Latham v. The Office of the Attorney General of the State of Ohio
  Sixth Circuit· 2005-01-10· cited 86×
• Andrew Neuens v. City of Columbus, Officer Isaac Bridges
  Sixth Circuit· 2002-09-12· cited 67×