Selzer v. Fleisher’s Empirical Analysis
629 F.2d 809 · 1980
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently July 2003 · most notably Pescatore v. Pan American World Airways, Inc. (1996), 611 F. Supp. 1296 - In Re "Agent Orange" Product Liability Litigation (1985)
15 federal appellate · 2 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 Mt. Healthy City School District Board of Education v. Doyle · Pickering v. Board of Education of Township High School District 205 Will County Illinois · Elrod v. Burns · Wood v. Strickland · Givhan v. Western Line Consolidated School District
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A prior judicial decision holding conduct such as appellants' to be a basis for suit was not necessary to apprise them of a rule which should come as no surprise....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the right to associate freely is not absolute, particularly when its exercise conflicts with the duties and responsibilities of a governmental employer”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“applicable to each defendant separately and cannot be satisfied by a finding as to the defendants collectively.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Coogan v. Smyers
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.