Smith v. Kunkel’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
January 1996
most recently cited
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[h]aving relinquished his position, [he] did not retain any constitutionally protected property interest in continued employment”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Finley v. Giacobbe
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.