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557 F.2d 435 · 1977

Citation profile

88
cited by 88 later decisions
6
states following
February 2016
most recently cited

33 federal appellate · 5 district · 7 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 88 later decisions — most recently February 2016 · most notably Todoroy v. DCH Healthcare Authority (1991), Bollow v. Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco (1981)

33 federal appellate · 5 district · 7 state decisions

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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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))

Relies on Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Perry v. Sindermann · Paul v. Davis · Bishop v. Wood · Codd v. Velger

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

  1. “(w)hen an employee retains his position (or is transferred to another position) even after being defamed by a public official, the only claim of stigma he has derives from the injury to his reputation, an interest that Paul reveals does not rise to the level of a liberty interest”
    6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. 599 F. Supp. 1111 - Elbaor v. Grand Prairie Hospital Authority · 719 So. 2d 360 - Sickon v. School Bd. of Alachua County
  2. “stigmatized in connection with a denial of a right or status previously recognized under state law.”
    5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Todorov v. DCH Healthcare Authority · 496 F. Supp. 770 - Sparks v. City of Atlanta
  3. “additional loss of a tangible interest necessary to give rise to a liberty interest ...”
    5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Douglas v. Evans · 888 F. Supp. 1536 - Douglas v. Evans

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.