Skeets v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently May 2016
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 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 · Cleveland Board of Education v. Loudermill · Bishop v. Wood · Boddie v. Connecticut · Bell v. Burson
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a person clearly must have more than an abstract need or desire for it. He must have more than a unilateral expectation of it. He must, instead, have a legitimate claim of entitlement to it.... Property interests, of course, are not created by the Constitution. Rather, they are created and their dimensions are defined by existing rules or understandings that stem from an independent source such as state lawsrules or understandings that secure certain benefits and that support claims of entitlement to those benefits.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[g]rievance procedures that do not establish any grounds upon which termination must be based ... create[] only an expectancy of review, not of continued employment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.