Thomlas v. Ward’s Empirical Analysis
529 F.2d 916 · 1975
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 2 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1996 · most notably Carey v. Piphus (1978), Howard University v. Best (1984)
30 federal appellate · 2 district · 9 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 Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Wolff v. McDonnell · Edelman v. Jordan · Goldberg v. Kelly · Perry v. Sindermann
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“explicit contractual provisions may be supplemented by other agreements implied from the promisor's words and conduct in light of the surrounding circumstances.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“(d)ue process is a flexible concept, the very nature of which negates any concept of inflexible procedures universally applicable to every imaginable situation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Clark v. Whiting“are employed on a continuing contract basis.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.