Luck v. Mazzone’s Empirical Analysis
52 F.3d 475 · 1995
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently July 2016 · most notably Daley v. Aetna Life & Casualty Co. (1999), Lewis v. Cowen (1999)
14 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 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))
Relies on Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Mathews v. Eldridge · Pickering v. Board of Education of Township High School District 205 Will County Illinois · Connick v. Myers · Rankin v. McPherson
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Such property interests are 'created and their dimensions are defined by existing rules or understandings that stem from an independent source such as state law.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“lacked state civil-service tenure or any other formal employment guarantee that would have given her a cognizable property interest in her job”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“An interest that state law permits to be terminated at the whim of another person is not a property right that is protected by the Due Process Clause.”
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.