Colaizzi v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
542 F.2d 969 · 1976
Citation profile
51 federal appellate · 5 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 104 later decisions — most recently July 2013 · most notably Doe v. United States Department of Justice (1985), Hill v. Borough of Kutztown (2006)
51 federal appellate · 5 district · 8 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 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 42 U.S.C. § 1981 (Civil Rights Act of 1866) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. · Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Scheuer v. Rhodes · United Mine Workers of America v. Gibbs · 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 104 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... infliction of a stigma to reputation accompanied by a failure to rehire (or, a fortiori, by a discharge) states a claim for deprivation of liberty without due process within the meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment. Moreover, this combination of stigma plus failure to rehire/discharge states a claim even if the failure to rehire or discharge of itself deprives the plaintiff of no property interest within the meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment. Colaizzi v. Walker, supra, 542 F.2d at 973 .”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“occur in the course of the termination of employment.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“by itself sufficient to invoke the procedural protection of the Due Process Clause. 23 424 U.S. at 701, 96 S.Ct. at 1160. 24 This Court has applied the”
2 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.