Kelleher v. Flawn’s Empirical Analysis
761 F.2d 1079 · 1985
Citation profile
39 federal appellate · 3 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 90 later decisions — most recently January 2018 · most notably Kocsis v. Multi-Care Management, Inc. (1996), Doe v. Dekalb County School District (1998)
39 federal appellate · 3 district · 7 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 Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Anderson v. City of Bessemer City · Mt. Healthy City School District Board of Education v. Doyle · Pickering v. Board of Education of Township High School District 205 Will County Illinois · Perry v. Sindermann
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 90 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An employer's activities may be deemed to amount to a constructive discharge only if 'the employer made conditions so intolerable that the employee reasonably felt compelled to resign.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is unclear whether the question is one of fact or a mixed question of fact and law.”
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.