Peter Dipiro v. James L. Taft’s Empirical Analysis
584 F.2d 1 · 1978
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently October 2005
6 federal appellate · 4 district ·
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 McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green · Elrod v. Burns · Claudio Bauza, Etc. v. Arturo Morales Carrion, Etc.
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(t)he federal courts are not super personnel boards ordained to reevaluate appointments and dismissals made in the course of state and local government operations.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Like the City Manager in Bums, City Manager Witschen had discretion to make an appointment "after interview and investigation,” from among “the names of the three persons standing highest on the appropriate list.” Since the City Manager could appoint any one of the top three certified candidates, none of these candidates had a clearly defined property interest in promotion- to Chief of Police.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Silva v. Witschen“It (Elrod ) simply holds that the first amendment prohibits political considerations in the case of non-policy making employees, But not in the case of policy making employees.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rosaly v. Ignacio
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.