Shawgo v. Spradlin’s Empirical Analysis
701 F.2d 470 · 1983
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 7 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 87 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2020 · most notably Anthony R. Hambsch, III v. Department of the Treasury, United States Secret Service (1986), Whisenhunt v. Spradlin (1983)
34 federal appellate · 7 district · 11 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 · Mathews v. Eldridge · Mullane v. Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co. · Perry v. Sindermann · Roe v. Wade
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 87 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a rational connection between the exigencies of Department discipline and forbidding members of a quasi-military unit, especially those different in rank, to share an apartment or to cohabit.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A] constructive discharge may be deemed to have resulted when the employer made conditions so intolerable that the employee reasonably felt compelled to resign.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“These conditions, insufferable as they may have been to the plaintiffs personally, were a result of their own reactions to the offensive publicity resulting from the open hearing and the Commission's decision to demote Whisenhunt, both factors inherent in the disciplinary proceeding necessitated in order to afford a disciplined employee hearing rights required by due process. Under these circumstances, the plaintiffs' resignations resulted from the embarrassment that may be consequent to any required disciplinary proceedings, not from any constitutionally (or otherwise) inhibited action by the employer that made intolerable the employees' continuance in governmental service.”
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.