Keniston v. Roberts’s Empirical Analysis
717 F.2d 1295 · 1983
Citation profile
51 federal appellate · 9 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 114 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably Max Lopez Jr v. Ga Smith Larry Loo a Acevedo Patterson 4a-2r (2000), Moraes v. Adams (1985)
51 federal appellate · 9 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 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 28 U.S.C. § 1343 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Conley v. Gibson · Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Mathews v. Eldridge · Foman v. Davis · Parratt v. Taylor
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 114 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'a right to recover under the Constitution and laws of the United States,'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“'for the purposes of determining whether [the plaintiff] stated a cause of action on which relief could be granted.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“The termination of [plaintiff’s] status as a State employee rests solely on a claim that his employers violated State statutes and local policies in effecting his termination. The right to employment by a State, in itself, is not a right secured by the Consitution or by the laws of the United States; thus, even an invalid or an improper discharge from such an office, unaccompanied by some more precise claim of federal right than a general claim of lack of due process, is not the sort of deprivation of a right ... which is secured by the Constitution of the United States ... Cases of this genre constitute uniquely State causes of action. As such they are peculiarly within the realm of State Courts____ Even though it is patent that the amorphous and protean contours of substantive due process under the Fourteenth Amendment extend to all citizens in all sorts of conditions and circumstances, it is equally axiomatic that federal jurisdiction under [28 U.S.C.] § 1343(3) and 42 U.S.C. § 1983 cannot be extended to that purely local squabble by the mere invocation of the generalized protection which these words of the amendment confer.”
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.