Russell v. Hodges’s Empirical Analysis
470 F.2d 212 · 1972
Citation profile
41 federal appellate · 8 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 97 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2015 · most notably Hooper v. Bernalillo County Assessor (1985), Mazaleski v. Treusdell (1977)
41 federal appellate · 8 district · 9 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)) · 5 U.S.C. § 7512
Relies on Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Perry v. Sindermann · Moose Lodge No. 107 v. Irvis · Ex parte Poresky · McDonald v. Board of Election Comm'rs of Chicago
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 97 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“something considerably graver than a charge of failure to perform a particular job, lying within the employee's power to correct.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Patterson v. Ramsey · Calo v. Paine“[d]esire to compensate in some measure for the disruption of a way of life . . . and to express gratitude. . . .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““As we understand these opinions [Roth and Sindermann ], an employee seeking to show, absent any claim of First Amendment violations, that his termination was a deprivation of ‘liberty’ must demonstrate that the government had made a charge ‘that might seriously damage his standing and associations in the community’ or had imposed ‘a stigma or other disability that foreclosed his freedom to take advantage of other employment opportunities.’ 408 U.S. at 573, 92 S.Ct. [2701] at 2707. The Court made clear that by the latter phrase it meant something more than the disadvantage inevitably entailed when a person ‘simply is not rehired in one job but remains as free as before to seek another.’ 408 U.S. at 575, 92 S.Ct. [2701] at 2707.””
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.