Silva v. Worden’s Empirical Analysis
130 F.3d 26 · 1997
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 29 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions — most recently May 2020 · most notably Berg v. County of Allegheny (2000), Wojcik v. Massachusettts State Lottery Commission (2002)
24 federal appellate · 29 district · 1 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 Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Paul v. Davis · Pembaur v. City of Cincinnati · Bishop v. Wood
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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he Fourteenth Amendment proeedurally protects reputation only where (1) government action threatens it, (2) with unusually serious harm, (3) as evidenced by the fact that employment (or some other right or status) is affected. Moreover, the municipality terminating the employee must also be responsible for the dissemination of defamatory charges, in a formal setting (and not merely as the result of unauthorized “leaks”), and thereby significantly have interfered with the employee’s ability to find future employment.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“custom or practice [that] is so well settled and widespread that the policy-making officials of the municipality can be said to have either actual or constructive knowledge of it yet did nothing to end the practice.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“sufficient evidence that the City's policymaking officials could be said to have had actual or constructive knowledge of the practice”
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.