O'Neal’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently October 2022 · most notably Diblasio v. Novello (2003), Ostrzenski v. Seigel (1999)
8 federal appellate · 4 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
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Will v. Michigan Department of State Police · Butz v. Economou · Wood v. Strickland · Forrester v. White
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the need to assure that the individual can perform his functions without harassment or intimidation; (2) the presence of safeguards that reduce the need for private damages actions as a means of controlling unconstitutional conduct; (3) insulation from political influence; (4) the importance of precedent; (5) the adversarial nature of the process; (6) the correctability of the error on appeal.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“free from the threat of incurring personal liability for every decision they hand down”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Procedural safeguards such as the right to counsel, adequate notice of a hearing, and the opportunity to present and cross-examine witnesses are all readily available to any person charged by the board.”
1 later decision 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.