Chellsen v. Pena’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently October 2014
1 federal appellate · 1 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
Relies on Towns v. Anderson · Jardel Enterprises, Inc. v. Triconsultants, Inc. · Cherry Hills Resort Development Co. v. City of Cherry Hills Village · Seeley v. Board of County Commissioners · Cole v. Hotz
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The same reasoning [in Seeley ] applies when a city charter, rather than a statute, provides that employees are terminable at will. One who contracts with a municipality is charged with knowledge of its limitations and restrictions in making contracts. The existing law, including the city charter, becomes a part of the contract. Further, a municipal corporation cannot be obligated upon an alleged implied contract which is contrary to charter provisions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McDonald v. Wise“the governmental decision is likely to adversely affect the protected interests of specific individuals, and if a decision is to be reached through the application of preexisting legal standards or policy considerations to present or past facts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“approval or disapproval of dismissals of probationary firefighters by the [Civil Servicel Commission is not a quasi-judicial act subject to review under C.R.C.P. 106(a)(4)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.