Boston Environmental Sanitation Inspectors Ass'n v. City of Boston’s Empirical Analysis
794 F.2d 12 · 1986
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 11 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently September 2017 · most notably Portman v. County of Santa Clara (1993), Charles v. Baesler (1990)
12 federal appellate · 11 district · 2 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Puerto Rico District Court)
Relationships
Relies on United Mine Workers of America v. Gibbs · Elrod v. Burns · Branti v. Finkel · Gilbert v. First National Bank of Jackson · Starnes v. United States
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an alleged breach of contract [by a state actor] does not amount to a deprivation of property without due process”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“We cannot be sympathetic to a party who elects to forego the [state procedures] provided him, and then complains he received none .... Since a sufficiently timely hearing was available to them, [plaintiffs] cannot bootstrap themselves into the federal court by failing to seek it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Furthermore, appellants’ claims that appellees breached state statutory provisions and applicable labor contracts cannot form the basis of a § 1983 action. Mere violation of state statutory requirements does not offend federal constitutional due process.”
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.