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Jungels v. Pierce’s Empirical Analysis

825 F.2d 1127 · 1987

Citation profile

66
cited by 66 later decisions
2
states following
February 2019
most recently cited

23 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 66 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably Phillips v. Calhoun (1992), Hall v. Ford (1988)

23 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 state decisions

2501987199020002010decided

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 Pickering v. Board of Education of Township High School District 205 Will County Illinois · Cleveland Board of Education v. Loudermill · Connick v. Myers · Kentucky v. Graham · Elrod v. Burns

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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[t]he Supreme Court has held that the interest which a public employee has in his job is property within the meaning of the due process clauses of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments if he has tenure rights in the job--that is, if he can be fired only for misconduct,”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Brown v. City of Galveston, Tex. · Thornton v. Barnes
  2. “nothing was added by suing the mayor in his official capacity”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. 368 F. Supp. 3d 1257 - Lugg v. Sutton · Robinson v. Sappington
  3. “the case of employment for a fixed (rather than indefinite) period terminable only for cause.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Thornton v. Barnes

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.