Zepp v. Rehrmann’s Empirical Analysis
79 F.3d 381 · 1996
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently September 2017 · most notably Ridpath v. Board of Governors Marshall University (2006), Jackson v. Long (1996)
8 federal appellate · 3 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
Relies on Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Paul v. Davis · Siegert v. Gilley
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To determine whether a federal right was clearly established at the time of the defendant’s alleged conduct, we focus ‘not upon the right at its most general or abstract level, but at the level of its application to the specific conduct being challenged.’”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“allege facts tending to show that his superiors made charges against him that might seriously damage his standing and associations in his community or otherwise imposed on him .a stigma or other disability that foreclosed his freedom to take advantage of other employment opportunities; that those charges were made public by his employer; and that the charges were false.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Robertson v. Rogers, 679 F.2d 1090 , 1092 (4th Cir.1982) (holding that statements that the plaintiff had been fired for”
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.