WMX Technologies, Inc. v. Miller’s Empirical Analysis
80 F.3d 1315 · 1996
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 3 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently May 2015 · most notably WMX Technologies, Inc. v. Miller (1997), Navajo Nation v. United States Forest Service (2008)
11 federal appellate · 3 district · 5 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
Relies on Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Goldberg v. Kelly · Paul v. Davis · Goss v. Lopez · Logan v. Zimmerman Brush Co.
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the `stigma-plus' test requires that the defamation be accompanied by an injury directly caused by the Government, rather than an injury caused by the act of some third party [in reaction to the Government's defamatory statements].”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“closely examined, and impartially investigated to see how their record compares with other nationwide firms in the waste industry.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“exercised a function closely akin to making an official and public adjudication of criminal culpability.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.