Fleury v. Clayton’s Empirical Analysis
847 F.2d 1229 · 1988
Citation profile
41 federal appellate · 2 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 81 later decisions — most recently July 2021 · most notably Double I Ltd. Partnership v. Plan & Zoning Commission (1991), Giaimo v. City of New Haven (2001)
41 federal appellate · 2 district · 8 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 Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Mathews v. Eldridge · Cleveland Board of Education v. Loudermill · Paul v. Davis · Hudson v. Palmer
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 81 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There is neither a 'liberty' nor a 'property' interest in procedures themselves.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Id. Thus, consistent with Supreme Court precedent, a right to a particular decision reached by applying rules to facts constitutes”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a blemish-free license to practice medicine.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Alexander v. Azar · Cain v. Larson
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.