Cox v. Roskelley’s Empirical Analysis
359 F.3d 1105 · 2004
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 6 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2025 · most notably Bellard v. Gautreaux (2012), Sciolino v. City of Newport News (2007)
10 federal appellate · 6 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Relies on Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Hope v. Pelzer · 120 Wash. 2d 782 - Dawson v. Daly · Vanelli v. Reynolds School District No. 7 · Drummond v. City of Anaheim
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an employee must show that (1) the accuracy of the charge is contested; (2) there is some public disclosure of the charge; and (3) the charge is made in connection with termination of employment.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Failure to provide a 'name-clearing' hearing in such a circumstance is a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment's due process clause.”
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.