Waltentas v. Lipper’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently September 2014
6 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 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
Relies on Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Parratt v. Taylor · Perry v. Sindermann · Colorado River Water Conservation District v. United States · Paul v. Davis
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the [Agencies] may terminate the negotiations at any time if, in their sole discretion, they are not satisfied with the progress of negotiation or if you [Walentas] fail to satisfy any of the other conditions set forth in [the Agreement].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a] mere breach of a contractual right is not a deprivation of property, and thus is not actionable under Sec. 1983. There is a distinction between contract interests and protectible property interests.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[s]uch a deprivation of liberty has been recognized not only where the individual is employed by the state, but where he seeks employment with the state and is denied it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.