Stow v. Ew Cochran’s Empirical Analysis
819 F.2d 864 · 1987
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently August 2016 · most notably Yowell v. Combs (1996), Drake v. Scott (1987)
17 federal appellate · 3 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)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Cleveland Board of Education v. Loudermill · Hewitt v. Helms · Gomez v. Toledo
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“create an independent substantive property right to continued employment when none would otherwise exist.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“Process is not an end in itself.... Its constitutional purpose is to protect a substantive interest to which the individual has a legitimate claim of entitlement. ... The State may choose to require procedures for reasons other than protection against deprivation of substantive rights, of course, but in making that choice the State does not create an independent substantive right.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[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 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.