Winkler v. County of DeKalb’s Empirical Analysis
648 F.2d 411 · 1981
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently February 2012 · most notably Reed Rbk v. Village of Shorewood (1983), Jett v. Dallas Independent School District (1986)
27 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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
Relies on Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Mathews v. Eldridge · Perry v. Sindermann · Memphis Light, Gas & Water Division v. Craft · MacKey v. Montrym
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]lthough the primary source of property rights is state law, the state may not magically declare an interest to be 'non property' after the fact for Fourteenth Amendment purposes if, for example, a longstanding pattern of practice has established an individual's entitlement to a particular government benefit.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Although the underlying substantive interest is created by ‘an independent source such as state law,’ federal constitutional law determines whether that interest rises to the level of a ‘legitimate claim of entitlement’ protected by the Due Process Clause.” Memphis Light, Gas & Water Division v. Craft, 436 U.S. 1 , 9, 98 S.Ct. 1554 , 1560, 56 L.Ed.2d 30 (1978) (citations omitted). Accord, Thompson v. Bass, 616 F.2d 1259 , 1265 (5th Cir.), cert. denied, 449 U.S. 983 , 101 S.Ct. 399 , 66 L.Ed.2d 245 (1980); * * *”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“establish[ ] the reasonable expectation that an employee will not be demoted to a position of vastly diminished responsibilities without cause”
2 later decisions 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.