Walker v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
744 F.2d 67 · 1984
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 11 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently March 2015 · most notably Melton v. City of Oklahoma City (1989), Melton v. City of Oklahoma City (1991)
28 federal appellate · 11 district · 4 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 28 U.S.C. § 636 · 5 U.S.C. § 3301 (Federal Vacancies Reform Act of 1998)
Relies on Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Mathews v. Eldridge · Wolff v. McDonnell · Paul v. Davis · Bishop v. Wood
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 concept of liberty recognizes two particular interests of a public employee: 1) the protection of his good name, reputation, honor and integrity, and 2) his freedom to take advantage of other employment opportunitites.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]hile not necessary in every case, 'procedural due process often requires confrontation and cross-examination of those whose word deprives a person of his livelihood,'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a liberty interest was not infringed when the only loss suffered at the hands of the government is a 'stigma' or damage to reputation”
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.