Mayfield v. Kelly’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently January 2019
4 federal appellate · 2 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 28 U.S.C. § 1331
Relies on Cleveland Board of Education v. Loudermill · City of Cleburne Texas v. Cleburne Living Center · City of St. Louis v. Praprotnik · Vance v. Bradley · Gregory v. Ashcroft
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“for whom [one district court has said] it is impossible to have pre-termination hearings,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Pre-termination hearings are for these reasons not required in RIF terminations. . . . A RIF clearly does not raise the same due process concerns that are raised by for-cause dismissals.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“interests weigh differently in a RIF than they do in a removal for cause.... A RIF involves a large number of employees ... for whom it is impossible to have pre-termination hearings.”
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.