Vinyard v. King’s Empirical Analysis
728 F.2d 428 · 1984
Citation profile
36 federal appellate · 14 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 77 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably 115 Ill. 2d 482 - Duldulao v. Saint Mary of Nazareth Hospital Center (1987), Melton v. City of Oklahoma City (1989)
36 federal appellate · 14 district · 12 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. § 1988
Relies on Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Hensley v. Eckerhart · Perry v. Sindermann · Railroad Commission v. Pullman Co.
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 77 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]n Oklahoma the provisions of an employee handbook can constitute a contract between the employer and employee and define the employer-employee relationship for as long as those provisions are in effect and the employee provides consideration for the benefits provided by the handbook.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A] property interest is determined by whether the terms of employment created by contract, federal statute, city charter or an employee manual 'create a sufficient expectancy of continued employment to constitute a property interest which must be afforded constitutionally guaranteed due process.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“was required, after reading and understanding its contents, to sign, along with the personnel assistant, the back page of the handbook.”
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.