Sonnleitner v. York’s Empirical Analysis
304 F.3d 704 · 2002
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently October 2021 · most notably Nelson v. University of Texas (2008), Hudson v. City of Chicago (2004)
22 federal appellate · 2 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Mathews v. Eldridge · Morrissey v. Brewer · Ex Parte: Edward T Young
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[f]irst, the private interest that will be affected by the official action; second, the risk of an erroneous deprivation of such interest through the procedures used and the probable value, if any, of additional or substitute procedural safeguards; and finally, the Government’s interest, including the function involved and the fiscal and administrative burdens that the additional or substitute procedural requirement would entail.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“clearly established at the time of the violation, so that a reasonable public official would have known that his conduct was unlawful.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bleavins v. Bartels“may be removed, suspended without pay, discharged, reduced in base pay or demoted only for just cause”
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.