Lyle Kirker v. Arch A. Moore, Jr.’s Empirical Analysis
436 F.2d 423 · 1971
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently April 1990
5 federal appellate · 4 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 Kirker v. Moore
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * [w]e are persuaded that the defendants were entitled to discharge the plaintiffs for any reason other than for their exercise of constitutionally protected rights, and that there was no requirement that any administrative hearing be held * * 436 F.2d 423 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Johnson v. Fraley
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.