Huffstutler v. Bergland’s Empirical Analysis
607 F.2d 1090 · 1979
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently January 2018 · most notably Blackburn v. Marshall City of (1995), Moore v. Mississippi Valley State University (1989)
27 federal appellate · 1 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 · Paul v. Davis · Bishop v. Wood · Codd v. Velger · William C. Ferguson v. Alvin I. Thomas
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that in the course of terminating his employment, (Turner) prepared a report, without giving him notice and an opportunity to be heard which was (a) false, (b) stigmatizing, and (c) published.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a] probationary employee may be discharged for any reason, or for no reason at all, but not for an unconstitutional reason.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Kotarski v. Cooper
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.