Owen v. City of Independence’s Empirical Analysis
560 F.2d 925 · 1977
Citation profile
54 federal appellate · 11 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 88 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2014 · most notably Owen v. City of Independence (1980), Dewey Dds v. Louisiana State Board of Dentistry (1980)
54 federal appellate · 11 district · 3 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 · Scheuer v. Rhodes · Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · Mt. Healthy City School District Board of Education v. Doyle · Edelman v. Jordan
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.
“the primary justification for the defense of good faith in Wood , to insure that public officials will not hesitate to discharge their duties out of fear of personal monetary liability * * * does not exist where the city itself will bear the monetary award.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“As we have noted, Owen’s age bars him from qualifying to serve further as chief of police, so vindication of his good name could not restore Owen to this job at this time. Moreover, in light of the findings by the district court that the city manager, prior to April 17,1972, had decided to discharge plaintiff for reasons which apparently did not relate to Owen’s honesty or integrity, a full báckpay remedy would afford Owen a windfall at the expense of the municipality and the municipal taxpayers. A person deprived of constitutional rights by the Government is entitled to relief only to the extent of the harm sustained, Codd v. Velger, supra, 429 U.S. [624] at 628, 97 S.Ct. [882] at 884 [ 51 L.Ed.2d 92 ]; to the extent that the constitutional violation causes no injury, no remedy is called for, Mt. Healthy City School District v. Doyle, supra, 429 U.S. [274] at 285, 97 S.Ct. 568 at 575 [, 50 L.Ed.2d 471 .]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence““In determining whether a government employer has deprived its employee of a liberty interest in the termination of employment, the crucial issue is whether the government employer, in connection with the termination of government employment, including a refusal to rehire or reemploy, makes a charge which might seriously damage the employee’s standing and reputation in the community.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.