Jimenez v. Almodovar’s Empirical Analysis
650 F.2d 363 · 1981
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 19 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 78 later decisions — most recently December 2015 · most notably San Bernardino Physicians' Services Medical Group, Inc. v. County of San Bernardino (1987), Chiplin Enterprises, Inc. v. City of Lebanon (1983)
34 federal appellate · 19 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Perry v. Sindermann · Paul v. Davis · Bishop v. Wood · Joseph Lochner v. People of the State of New York
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 78 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““mere breach of a contractual right is not a deprivation of property without constitutional due process of law.... Otherwise, virtually every controversy involving an alleged breach of contract by a government or a governmental institution or agency or instrumentality would be a constitutional case.””
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a] mere breach of contractual right is not a deprivation of property without constitutional due process of law .... Otherwise, virtually every controversy involving an alleged breach of contract by a government ... would be a constitutional case.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he [Association of American Colleges] and the AAUP were the framers of the 1940 Statement of Principles on Academic Freedom and Tenure, the fundamental document on the subject.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Vega v. Miller
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.