Thurston v. Dekle’s Empirical Analysis
531 F.2d 1264 · 1976
Citation profile
88 federal appellate · 6 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 179 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 1998 · most notably Davis v. Scherer (1984), Smith v. Johnson Products Company, Inc. (1983)
88 federal appellate · 6 district · 16 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 · Mathews v. Eldridge · Morrissey v. Brewer · Baker v. Carr · Goldberg v. Kelly
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 179 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"(1) [R]esult in damage to public property; (2) result in injury either to the employee, a fellow employee, or to the general public; and (3) where an employee is confined in jail or prison under a writ of arrest or other judicial process. In any such event, the Appointing Authority shall, nevertheless, furnish written notice to the employee of the specific reasons for termination or suspension within twenty-four (24) hours of such dismissal or suspension, and shall also be given an opportunity for an evidentiary hearing within twenty-eight (28) days of such action."”
19 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The City argues that its employees may seek review of their suspension without pay. During this period of suspension without pay, however, the employees lose all benefits of employment. In addition, the suspension automatically becomes termination unless the Civil Service Board on review orders reinstatement and backpay. The [trial c]ourt correctly saw this suspension process as no more than a facade. It held that “in reality, ‘suspension’ under the present state of facts ... is subject to the condition subsequent that an employee may be reinstated with backpay upon successful appeal.” Since suspension without pay is in reality termination, the city must provide whatever pretermination procedures the Constitution mandates prior to suspension without pay.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(c)ity employment which allows termination only for cause creates a constitutionally protectable property interest,”
3 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.