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511 F.2d 696 · 1975

Citation profile

50
cited by 50 later decisions
4
states following
February 2012
most recently cited

23 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently February 2012 · most notably Wells v. Hico Independent School District (1984), Kelleher v. Flawn (1985)

23 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 state decisions

28019751980199020002010decided

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 Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Perry v. Sindermann · Sims v. Fox · Kaprelian v. Texas Woman's University

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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “in any official or intentional manner, other than in connection with the defense of related legal action.”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. 781 So. 2d 1 - Huang v. BD. OF TRUSTEES FOR STATE COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES · Johny Walker v. Clifford L. Alexander, Secretary of the Army
  2. “has ever been made aware of the reasons for the non-renewal of the plaintiff's contract.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Wells v. Doland
  3. “the mere presence of derogatory information in confidential files”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Johny Walker v. Clifford L. Alexander, Secretary of the Army

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.