Sellars v. Perry’s Empirical Analysis
80 F.3d 243 · 1996
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently July 2016
9 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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 Wilson v. Garcia · Delaware State College v. Ricks · United States v. Alaska · White v. Illinois · Cada v. Baxter Healthcare Corp.
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Sellars claims, rather persuasively, that the letter is a forgery. Nonetheless, Perry sent Sellars a letter dated January 29, 1991, accepting the resignation effective immediately and asking for the return of certain property. Perry sent Sellars another letter dated February 13, 1991, stating that exit pay was being withheld due to Sellars' failure to return the property. Both letters were sent to”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sellars v. Perry“the essential question is whether [the plaintiff] knew or should have known that his employment with the Department was terminated prior to April 26, 1991--two years before he filed a complaint in federal court”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the statute of limitations governing personal injury claims in the state where the alleged injury occurred.”
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.