McDonell v. Hunter’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 6 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably National Treasury Employees Union v. Van Raab (1987), McDonell v. Hunter (1987)
15 federal appellate · 6 district · 6 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1343 · 28 U.S.C. § 1392 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Illinois v. Gates · Katz v. United States · Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · Wolff v. McDonnell
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[U]rine is discharged and disposed of under circumstances where the person has a reasonable and legitimate expectation of privacy.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“advance consent to future unreasonable searches is not a reasonable condition of employment.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.