Leftwich v. Bevilacqua’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently March 2019
3 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Brady v. State of Maryland · Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Cleveland Board of Education v. Loudermill · Arnett v. Kennedy · Buschi v. Kirven
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“oral or written notice of the charges against him, an explanation of the employer's evidence, and an opportunity to present his side of the story.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Zinker v. Doty
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.