Ostlund v. Bobb’s Empirical Analysis
825 F.2d 1371 · 1987
Citation profile
35 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently August 2011 · most notably Portman v. County of Santa Clara (1993), Brady v. Gebbie (1988)
35 federal appellate · 3 district · 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 · Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Mathews v. Eldridge · Anderson v. Creighton · Johnson v. Zerbst
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whether deprivation of a property right implicates a due process right to a hearing is a matter of federal constitutional law.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jesse J. Sanchez Victor Torres Robert Caro v. City of Santa Ana, and City of Santa Ana Police Department Don Botts Raymond C. Davis E.B. Hansen Robert Stebbens Norwood Williams Lee Drummond Lawrence Pitzer Michael Llewellyn Dale Sterzer Gary Dixon John Collins John McDaniels Michael Lanners William Bruns John Dittus Richard Faust John McClain Jesse J. Sanchez Victor Torres Robert Caro v. City of Santa Ana, and Robert Stebbens Norwood Williams Lee Drummond Lawrence Pitzer Michael Llewellyn Dale Sterzer Gary Dixon John Collins John McDaniels Michael Lanners William Bruns John Dittus Richard Faust John McClain · Sanchez“does not violate clearly established statutory or constitutional rights of which a reasonable person would have known.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A waiver of a constitutional right is 'not to be implied and is not lightly to be found.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jesse J. Sanchez Victor Torres Robert Caro v. City of Santa Ana, and City of Santa Ana Police Department Don Botts Raymond C. Davis E.B. Hansen Robert Stebbens Norwood Williams Lee Drummond Lawrence Pitzer Michael Llewellyn Dale Sterzer Gary Dixon John Collins John McDaniels Michael Lanners William Bruns John Dittus Richard Faust John McClain Jesse J. Sanchez Victor Torres Robert Caro v. City of Santa Ana, and Robert Stebbens Norwood Williams Lee Drummond Lawrence Pitzer Michael Llewellyn Dale Sterzer Gary Dixon John Collins John McDaniels Michael Lanners William Bruns John Dittus Richard Faust John McClain · Sanchez
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.