Mary B. Sigmon v. William E. Poe, Individually’s Empirical Analysis
564 F.2d 1093 · 1977
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 6 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently May 2016 · most notably Fox v. Custis (1983), Fox
23 federal appellate · 6 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 · United Mine Workers of America v. Gibbs · Perry v. Sindermann · 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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The contract may provide a basis for recovery under a breach of promise theory, but that issue is not elevated to a constitutional question solely because the State is a party to the contract. As we have admonished repeatedly ‘(every) disagreement between a public employee with his employer over ... the terms of his contract does not reach constitutional proportions.’”
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.