Thornton v. DHHR’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently June 2007 · most notably Newman v. Department of Fire (1983), Jones v. Dept. of Health & Human Resources (1983)
28 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 Leggett v. Northwestern State College · Aubert v. Charity Hospital of Louisiana at New Orleans · Aubert v. Charity Hospital of Louisiana · 273 So. 2d 534 - Jennings v. Allstate Insurance Company
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“exists when the employee's conduct is detrimental to the efficient and orderly operation of the public service that employed him or her. Stated differently, disciplinary action against a civil service employee will be deemed arbitrary and capricious unless there is a real and substantial relationship between the improper conduct and the”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“legal cause for disciplinary action exists when the conduct complained of impairs the efficiency of the public service and bears a real and substantial relation to efficient and orderly operation of the public service in which the employee is engaged.”
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.