175 W. Va. 814 - Freeman v. Polling’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently May 2017 · most notably 196 W. Va. 208 - State Ex Rel. Cooper v. Caperton (1996), 198 W. Va. 139 - Hutchison v. City of Huntington (1996)
24 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 Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Anderson v. City of Bessemer City · Mt. Healthy City School District Board of Education v. Doyle · Perry v. Sindermann · Elrod v. Burns
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Courts are rather uniform in holding that an unexplained termination or discharge from employment does not create a sufficient stigma to invoke a liberty interest protection under Roth as the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals held in Bunting v. City of Columbia, 639 F.2d 1090, 1095 (4th Cir.1981): “Certainly, a person who has been fired may be somewhat less attractive to other potential employers, but it would be stretching the concept too far to conclude that a person’s liberty interest is impaired merely because he has been discharged. See Board of Regents v. Roth, 408 U.S. 564, 575 [ 92 S.Ct. 2701, 2708 , 33 L.Ed.2d 548, 560 ] (1972).” See Board of Curators v. Horowitz, 435 U.S. 78, 83-84 , 98 S.Ct. 948, 952 , 55 L.Ed.2d 124, 131 (1978).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The “liberty interest” includes an individual’s right to freely move about, live and work at his chosen vocation, without the burden of an unjustified label of infamy. A liberty interest is implicated when the State makes a charge against an individual that might seriously damage his standing and associations in his community or places a stigma or other disability on him that forecloses future employment opportunities.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““A state or one of its political subdivisions is not bound by the legally unauthorized acts of its officers and all persons must take note of the legal limitations upon their power and authority. Cunningham v. County Court of Wood County, 148 W.Va. 303, 310 , 134 S.E.2d 725, 729 (1964).” Syllabus Point 2, West Virginia Public Employees Ins. Bd. v. Blue Cross Hosp. Serv., Inc., 174 W.Va. 605 , 328 S.E.2d 356 (1985).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.