Wyatt v. Bronner’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently April 2006
4 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1343 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Bishop v. Wood · Goss v. Lopez · Thurston v. Dekle · Glenn v. Newman
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“All offices or positions of trust or employment in the state service now or hereafter created except those placed in the unclassified service or exempt service by this article.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“all other officers and positions in the state service.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“less any earnings which are in mitigation.”
1 later decision 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.