Wells v. Doland’s Empirical Analysis
711 F.2d 670 · 1983
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently December 2014 · most notably Wells v. Hico Independent School District (1984), Farias v. Bexar County Board of Trustees for Mental Health Mental Retardation Services (1991)
20 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 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 · Perry v. Sindermann · Bishop v. Wood · Carey v. Piphus · Vance v. Bradley
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the governmental agency has made or is likely to make the ... stigmatizing charges public 'in any official or intentional manner, other than in connection with the defense of [related legal] action.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“his good name, reputation, and integrity so as to possibly deprive him of future state employment [and] caus[ed] damage to his professional reputation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“for no reason, a reason based on erroneous facts, or for any reason it chose, except for a reason that violated plaintiff's constitutional rights.”
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.