Bleeker v. Dukakis’s Empirical Analysis
665 F.2d 401 · 1981
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 13 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently November 2013 · most notably Unger v. National Residents Matching Program (1991), Reich v. Beharry (1989)
25 federal appellate · 13 district · 6 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 · Bishop v. Wood · Beitzell v. Jeffrey · Jimenez v. Almodovar
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This lack of any reasonable expectation of continued employment suffices to establish the lack of 'property' in the constitutional sense, and hence the lack of a viable due process claim.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The plaintiffs have failed to state a claim for relief under federal law. In Jimenez v. Almodovar, 650 F.2d 363, 370 (1st Cir.1981), we held that 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 or a governmental institution or agency or instrumentality would be a constitutional case.””
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.