Loughran v. Codd’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently April 2002
4 federal appellate · 3 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Pickering v. Board of Education of Township High School District 205 Will County Illinois · Shapiro v. Thompson · Goss v. Lopez · Cafeteria & Restaurant Workers Union, Local 473 v. McElroy · Rizzo v. Goode
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Department official should rightly have available an effective means by which to verify the legitimacy of an officer’s disability claim and the necessity for his absence from duty.... [T]he purpose ... is to ensure that a disabled member performing no duty does not partake in activity that is inconsistent with his status and which might undermine his expeditious return to service. '”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“While the Court in Kelley did admit that the liberty interest in matters of personal appearance was distinguishable from more fundamental rights such as those of procreation, marriage and family life, the Court did assume for decision purposes that it was a right falling within the protections of the due process clause and announced the “irrational-arbitrary” test accordingly.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Voorhees v. Shull
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.