McElwee v. Todd’s Empirical Analysis
581 F.2d 1182 · 1978
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently November 2001
7 federal appellate · 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 · Isbell Enterprises, Inc. v. Citizens Casualty Co. of New York · Bishop v. Wood · Codd v. Velger · King v. Brewer
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“hearing could not have expunged * * * the central reason for his dismissal, his possession of marijuana.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Green v. Finley · Greene v. Finley“* * * Only if the employer creates and disseminates a false and defamatory impression about the employee in connection with his termination is such a hearing required.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“A protected property interest in employment exists only where the employee has an express or implied right to continued employment.”
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.