Eley v. Morris’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently December 2018
6 federal appellate · 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. § 1343 · 28 U.S.C. § 2281 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 5 U.S.C. § 7501 (Civil Service Due Process Amendments)
Relies on Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Edelman v. Jordan · Goldberg v. Kelly · Perry v. Sindermann · Bell v. Hood
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The leading case in this area is Arnett v. Kennedy, 416 U.S. 134 , 94 S.Ct. 1633 , 40 L.Ed.2d 15 (1974), in which the Supreme Court upheld the discharge of a nonprobationary federal employee pursuant to the provisions of the Lloyd-LaFollette Act, 5 U.S.C. § 7501 . In light of the fact that five separate opinions were filed in Arnett , the rationale in that case is by no means clear; however, Arnett has been generally interpreted to stand for two central propositions. First, the courts reaching the issue after Arnett have uniformly held that "a post-termination hearing was sufficient to protect those interests meriting due process protection, whether those interests were in the nature of 'property' or 'liberty.'" Davis v. Vandiver, 494 F.2d 830, 832 (5th Cir. 1974) . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“his discretion will be more informed and ... the risk of error substantially reduced”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“to the existence of disputes about facts and arguments about cause and effect,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.