Colm v. Vance’s Empirical Analysis
567 F.2d 1125 · 1977
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 11 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently July 2015 · most notably Carducci v. Regan (1983), Phillips v. Bureau of Prisons (1979)
24 federal appellate · 11 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 · Morrissey v. Brewer · Goldberg v. Kelly · Perry v. Sindermann · Paul v. Davis
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““to have a property interest in a benefit, a person clearly must have more than an abstract need or desire for it. He must have more than a unilateral expectation for it ... Property interests, of course, are not created by the Constitution. Rather, they are created and their dimensions are defined by existing rules or understandings that stem from an independent source such as state law — rules or understandings that secure certain benefits and that support claims of entitlement to those benefits.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“If [an] aggrieved party is determined to have no protected property interest (e.g., job tenure) or in liberty (stemming from the circumstances surrounding the termination of employment), due process itself does not apply, and the party is left with only those procedural protections established by or otherwise binding upon the employing agency.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Neither longevity nor procedural prerequisites to a valid separation alone necessarily creates a protected property interest in one's employment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Skeets v. Johnson
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.