Stein v. Board of City of New York Bureau of Pupil Transportation Acj a Board of Education of City of New York a’s Empirical Analysis
792 F.2d 13 · 1986
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 3 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently October 2016 · most notably Warren v. Dwyer (1990), Tedesco v. City of Stamford (1991)
13 federal appellate · 3 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 Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Carey v. Piphus · Wood v. Strickland · Cafeteria & Restaurant Workers Union, Local 473 v. McElroy
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The `good cause' for the discharge was supplied by the state, which by disqualifying the employee foreclosed him from doing his job. Accordingly, Stein's `claim of entitlement' arose from his contract with [the bus company.]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]here the independent source of a property interest is a private contract, the state cannot transgress on the claim of entitlement to continued employment without due process of law.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Qualified or ‘good faith’ immunity is an affirmative defense that shields government officials ‘from liability for civil damages insofar as their conduct does not violate clearly established statutory or constitutional rights of which a reasonable person would have known.'”
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.