Samad v. Jenkins’s Empirical Analysis
845 F.2d 660 · 1988
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently December 2023
7 federal appellate · 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 Paul v. Davis · Bart v. Telford · Sullivan v. Brown · Davis v. Marathon Oil Co.
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We believe there must be a substantial, tangible harm and a material change to an employee’s status before the employee possesses a viable § 1983 cause of action based upon the fourteenth amendment. We cannot find anywhere in the record where Samad has alleged that the University or Jenkins took any steps that significantly and materially impaired plaintiff’s agreed employment status.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“a mere 'subjective chilling' of first amendment rights by virtue of a possible misuse of the collected information did not create a federally justiciable controversy.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bloch v. Ribar“[i]ronically, plaintiff is accusing defendants of chilling his first amendment freedoms by reserving their own first amendment right to speak out.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bloch v. Ribar
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.