King v. Sermonis’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently October 2013
2 federal appellate · 5 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 Thurman v. Meridian Mutual Insurance Company · Pritchett v. Marshall · City of Louisville v. Martin, Com'r of Revenue · Watkins v. Department of Highways of the Commonwealth · Goss v. Personnel Board
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Under this construction of the statute, the provisions with reference to a finding of political, religious or ethnic reasons for a discharge, and to “all other cases,” apply only where the board first had found the existence of a cause that would be a legal ground for discharge; the board may find that the discharge actually was for political, religious or ethnic reasons rather than for the technical cause found to exist; or the board may find that there are mitigating circumstances such as to warrant a recommendation for reinstatement even though legal cause for discharge exists.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Thompson v. Huecker
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.