Claude L. HUNTLEY, Jr., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. COMMUNITY SCHOOL BOARD OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 14, Et Al., Defendants-Appellees’s Empirical Analysis
543 F.2d 979 · 1976
Citation profile
35 federal appellate · 6 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions — most recently September 2019 · most notably Doe v. United States Department of Justice (1985), Melton v. City of Oklahoma City (1991)
35 federal appellate · 6 district · 5 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 McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green · Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Perry v. Sindermann · Paul v. Davis · Screws v. United States
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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“charges which might impair his chances of future employment as a school supervisor and which might damage his professional reputation.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Having discharged Huntley with a public statement of these charges, it is unlikely that Huntley would ever have a chance to obtain another supervisory position in the public schools or elsewhere.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“on [the plaintiff] a stigma or other disability that foreclose[s] his freedom to take advantage of other employment opportunities.”
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.