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Megill v. Board of Regents’s Empirical Analysis

541 F.2d 1073 · 1976

Citation profile

127

cited by 127 later decisions

states following

August 2024

most recently cited

70 federal appellate · 5 district · 14 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 127 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably Nix v. WLCY Radio/Rahall Communications (1984), Lee v. Russell County Board of Education (1982)

70 federal appellate · 5 district · 14 state decisions — followed in 10 states

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 · Pickering v. Board of Education of Township High School District 205 Will County Illinois · Goldberg v. Kelly · Perry v. Sindermann · Bishop v. Wood

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

“[An] employer may fire an employee for a good reason, a bad reason, a reason based on erroneous facts, or for no reason at all, as long as its action is not for a [retaliatory] reason.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. Citron v. Jackson State University · Perham v. Ladd
“In Duke ... this Court refused to adopt any per se rule disqualifying administrative hearing bodies. The record must support actual partiality of the body or its individual members.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. Heins v. Beaumont Independent School District · Levitt v. University of Texas at El Paso
“[a]n impartial decisionmaker is a basic constituent of minimum due process.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. 815 So. 2d 738 - DEPT. OF HIGHWAY SAFETY v. Pitts · 562 So. 2d 322 - RIDGEWOOD PROP., INC. v. Dept. of Community Affairs

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.