In Re Bruce Selcraig’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
6 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably Bennett v. City of Redfield (1989), 175 W. Va. 814 - Freeman v. Polling (1985)
6 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
Relies on Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Morrissey v. Brewer · Wolff v. McDonnell · Goldberg v. Kelly · 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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We have recognized that the first amendment shields a reporter from being required to disclose the identity of persons who have imparted information to him in confidence. Miller v. Transamerican Press, 621 F.2d 721 (5th Cir.), modified on rehearing, 628 F.2d 932 (5th Cir.1980), cert. denied, 450 U.S. 1041 , 101 S.Ct. 1759 , 68 L.Ed.2d 238 (1981). Our course was dictated by our careful reading of the plurality and concurring opinions in Branzburg v. Hayes, 408 U.S. 665 , 92 S.Ct. 2646 , 33 L.Ed.2d 626 (1972). The privilege, we held, is not absolute, but qualified.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“there is no viable, free standing, federal due process claim arising from injury to one's reputation. Such a claim is viable only in combination with two other elements: `when there is some injury to employment * * * in addition to damage to reputation and a subsequent denial of procedural due process to redress that injury.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“make known to the stigmatized employee that [she] may have an opportunity to clear [her] name upon request.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Johnston v. Borders
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.