Eguia v. Tompkins’s Empirical Analysis
756 F.2d 1130 · 1985
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 7 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently July 2018 · most notably Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation v. New Hampshire Insurance Company (1991), Weinstein v. University of Illinois (1987)
15 federal appellate · 7 district · 3 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))
Relies on Mathews v. Eldridge · Goldberg v. Kelly · Perry v. Sindermann · Pennhurst State School and Hospital v. Halderman · Fuentes v. Shevin
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[d]ocuments presented in support of a motion for summary judgment may be considered even though they do not comply with the requirements of Rule 56 if there is no objection to their use.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“substantial, but ... [not] of the same magnitude as the interest of a person 'on the very margin of subsistence' in the receipt of governmental benefits.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“plaintiff's interest in his salary and expense reimbursement is a property interest protected by the Constitution”
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.