399 F. Supp. 985 - Springston v. King’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
1 district ·
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Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1343
Relies on Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Perry v. Sindermann · Arnett v. Kennedy · Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee v. McGrath · Wisconsin v. Constantineau
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Indeed, a general rule that informing an employee of job-related reasons for termination created a right to a hearing, in circumstances where there was no constitutional requirement for the state to do anything, would be self-defeating; the state would merely opt to give no reasons and the employee would lose the benefits of knowing what might profit him in the future.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Patterson v. Ramsey
How this case has been treated — in progress
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