Shearl Danenberger v. J. Thomas Johnson, Mark Frech and Bill Fleischli’s Empirical Analysis
821 F.2d 361 · 1987
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently August 2015
11 federal appellate · 2 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 Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Elrod v. Burns · Pierson v. Ray · Davis v. Scherer · Branti v. Finkel
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“must be clearly recognized in existing case law.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bailey v. State · Swanson v. Powers“party affiliation is an appropriate requirement for effective performance of the public office involved [i.e., those employees in policy making or confidential positions].”
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.