Miller v. City of Mission’s Empirical Analysis
705 F.2d 368 · 1983
Citation profile
87 federal appellate · 41 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 160 later decisions — most recently January 2016 · most notably Conaway v. Smith (1988), Meade v. Grubbs (1988)
87 federal appellate · 41 district · 10 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)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1985
Relies on Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Mathews v. Eldridge · Perry v. Sindermann
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 160 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'due process requires a hearing at which he may test the validity of the proffered grounds for his dismissal.'”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“decision[s] officially adopted and promulgated by that body's officers.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“may not be granted unless the evidence points but one way and is susceptible to no reasonable inferences which may sustain the position of the party against whom the motion is made.”
3 later decisions 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.