Wilson III v. Robinson’s Empirical Analysis
668 F.2d 380 · 1981
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently August 2016 · most notably Littlefield v. City of Afton (1986), Curtis Ambulance of Florida, Inc. v. Board of County Commissioners of Shawnee (1987)
17 federal appellate · 3 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 Mt. Healthy City School District Board of Education v. Doyle · Bishop v. Wood · Dataphase Systems, Inc. v. C L Systems, Inc. · Socialist Labor Party v. Gilligan · Jones v. Metzger
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There can be no doubt that this ordinance creates an expectation of continued employment sufficient to require that procedural due process be afforded to county employees prior to termination.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is possible that the termination attempt will be abandoned_ It therefore is proper for the district court to ... defer action thereon until the issues become clear and necessary to decide.”
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.