Weisbrod v. Donigan’s Empirical Analysis
651 F.2d 334 · 1981
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Wood v. Strickland · Chaplinsky v. State of New Hampshire · Gomez v. Toledo · Cohen v. California · Alabama v. Pugh
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“did not act in disregard of any well-settled constitutional rights.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Weisbrod offers no authority indicating the failure to hold a pretermination hearing and the delay in the process of her administrative appeal were clear violations of her constitutional rights.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Davis v. Scherer
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.