Kenneth R. Davis v. S. Ernest Vandiver, William H. Kelly and Paul E. Innecken’s Empirical Analysis
494 F.2d 830 · 1974
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently June 2008 · most notably Terrell v. University of Texas System Police (1986), Thurston v. Dekle (1976)
18 federal appellate · 6 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 Arnett v. Kennedy · Meehan v. Macy · Meehan v. Macy
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ . . . our hand is clearly guided by [Arnett], inasmuch as six Justices expressly concurred in the proposition that a post-termination hearing was sufficient to protect those interests meriting due process protection, whether those interests were in the nature of ‘property’ or ‘liberty.’ The plurality opinion in Arnett indicated that by incorporating express procedures into the statute which also conferred rights on federal employees, Congress delineated the full extent of the ‘property interest’ enjoyed by the employee in continued retention of his post.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Davis was provided with notice of the charge and granted a reasonable opportunity to respond prior to his discharge. Subsequent to his dismissal he was afforded a full-scale evidentiary hearing presided over by a hearing examiner. Arnett demands no more.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Eley v. Morris · Gilbert v. Johnson“The National Guard Technician Act of 1968, 32 U.S.C.A. § 709 . . . confer(red) federal status on civilian technicians . . . .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.