Adams v. McDougal’s Empirical Analysis
695 F.2d 104 · 1983
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably Oden v. Oktibbeha County (2001), Smith v. Monsanto Chemical Co. (1985)
11 federal appellate · 5 district ·
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. § 1981 (Civil Rights Act of 1866) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 701 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green · Texas Department of Community Affairs v. Burdine · Elrod v. Burns · Johnson v. Railway Express Agency, Inc. · Pullman-Standard v. Swint
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To the extent that the Kyles court felt constrained by a strict reading of Louisiana law regarding the status of deputy sheriffs, that decision is incorrect.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Moore v. Smith“despite the indefinite tenure of the job of deputy sheriff, the sheriff and his deputies had expectations arising from the deputy's employment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Moore v. Smith“definite and firm impression that a mistake has been made,”
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.