Sullivan v. Stark’s Empirical Analysis
808 F.2d 737 · 1987
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 8 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently April 2015
9 federal appellate · 8 district ·
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. § 1346 (Federal Tort Claims Act) · 5 U.S.C. § 3302 · 5 U.S.C. § 7511 · 5 U.S.C. § 7513
Relies on Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Mathews v. Eldridge · Memphis Community School District v. Stachura · Wieman v. Updegraff · United States v. Hopkins
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.
“The concept of liberty recognizes two particular interests of a public employee: 1) the protection of his good name, reputation, honor and integrity; and 2) his freedom to take advantage of other employment opportunities. The manner in which a public employee is terminated may deprive him of either or both of these liberty interests. When the termination is accompanied by public dissemination of the reasons for dismissal, and those reasons would stigmatize the employee’s reputation or foreclose future employment opportunities, due process requires that the employee be provided a hearing at which he may test the validity of the proffered grounds for dismissal.”
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.