Clark v. Maurer’s Empirical Analysis
824 F.2d 565 · 1987
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently June 2023 · most notably Johnson v. Martin (1991), Rosenstein v. City of Dallas (1989)
21 federal appellate · 1 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))
Relies on Bishop v. Wood · Codd v. Velger · Hadley v. County of Du Page · Perry v. Federal Bureau of Investigation · Reis v. Morrison
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When a public employer fires an employee to the accompaniment of public charges of serious wrongdoing, and the charges are false, the employer may be liable for having deprived the employee of liberty without due process of law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“it is reasonable to believe that these [stigmatizing] charges continue in the [plaintiffs'] personnel files, a time bomb waiting to explode when sent to a prospective employer.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Johnson v. Martin“until the time bomb goes off, the plaintiffs will sustain no injury to their reputations....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Johnson v. Martin
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.