Graning v. Sherburne County’s Empirical Analysis
172 F.3d 611 · 1999
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 39 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 78 later decisions — most recently August 2023 · most notably John Young/appellant v. City of St Charles Missouri David King (2001), Allen v. Iranon (2002)
15 federal appellate · 39 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 28 U.S.C. § 1367 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green · Mt. Healthy City School District Board of Education v. Doyle · Cleveland Board of Education v. Loudermill
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 78 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“so-called mixed motive analysis under Mt. Healthy is only used if a complainant has come forward with evidence that directly reflects the use of an illegitimate criterion in the challenged decision.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“truly irrational, that is, something more than ... arbitrary, capricious, or in violation of state law.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a] public employee with a protected property interest in continued employment receives due process if there is notice and an opportunity to respond to charges of misconduct before her termination and if posttermination administrative review procedures are available.”
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.