Codd v. Velger’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
717 federal appellate · 194 district · 211 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,986 later decisions (20 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2024 · most notably Sandin v. Conner (1995), Carey v. Piphus (1978)
717 federal appellate · 194 district · 211 state decisions — followed in 29 states
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
reviewedVelger v. Cawley (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · United States v. United States Gypsum Co. · Morrissey v. Brewer · Mt. Healthy City School District Board of Education v. Doyle · Perry v. Sindermann
Cited together with Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Bishop v. Wood · Paul v. Davis · Perry v. Sindermann · Mathews v. Eldridge
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 1,986 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]f the hearing mandated by the Due Process Clause is to serve any useful purpose, there must be some factual dispute between an employer and a discharged employee which has some significant bearing on the employee's reputation.”
42 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Only if the employer creates and disseminates a false and defamatory impression about the employee in connection with his termination is such a hearing required.”
24 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he hearing required where a nontenured employee has been stigmatized in the course of a decision to terminate [her] employment is solely to provide the person an opportunity to clear [her] name.”
20 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Colaizzi v. Walker · Crews v. Ellis
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.