Cahoon v. Shelton’s Empirical Analysis
647 F.3d 18 · 2011
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently September 2024
14 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1331
Relies on Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Mathews v. Eldridge · United States v. Zannino · Mesnick v. General Electric Co. · Webb's Fabulous Pharmacies, Inc. v. Beckwith
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A court tasked with determining whether a constitutionally protected property interest exists must look to 'existing rules or understandings that stem from an independent source such as state law.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Harper v. Werfel“A party's unilateral expectation, in itself, cannot create a constitutionally protected property interest.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Harper v. Werfel
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.