Parham v. Hardaway’s Empirical Analysis
555 F.2d 139 · 1977
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently August 1999
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 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 · Perry v. Sindermann · Bishop v. Wood · Jeffries v. Turkey Run Consolidated School District · Ryan v. Aurora City Board of Education
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Accordingly, we hold that the district court did not err in determining that [plaintiff], being nontenured, did not enjoy such a protected property interest in his continued employment under Tennessee law as to entitle him to the protection of the Fourteenth Amendment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a] property interest in employment can, of course, be created by ordinance, or by an implied contract. In either case, however, the sufficiency of the claim of entitlement must be decided by reference to state law.”
1 later decision 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.