Russell v. Selsky’s Empirical Analysis
35 F.3d 55 · 1994
Citation profile
6 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently January 2021 · most notably Colon v. Coughlin (1995), Allen v. Cuomo (1996)
6 federal appellate ·
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 Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Anderson v. Creighton · Wolff v. McDonnell · Cleveland Board of Education v. Loudermill · Baxter v. Palmigiano
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the rule of Kenney " is solely a rule of state law, it has no application in this § 1983 action claiming a deprivation of McGuinness' rights secured by the federal Constitution and laws. 5 "Federal constitutional standards rather than state statutes define the requirements of procedural due process.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McGuinness v. Dubois“did not violate any clearly established constitutional or statutory right”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Colon v. Annucci
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.