Farmer v. Lane’s Empirical Analysis
864 F.2d 473 · 1988
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently February 2021 · most notably Colburn v. Trustees of Indiana University (1992), Buttitta v. City of Chicago (1993)
21 federal appellate · 2 district · 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 Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Perry v. Sindermann · Allen v. McCurry · Bishop v. Wood · Hewitt v. Helms
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Property interests in employment may be created by express or implied contracts, municipal ordinances or state laws.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In general, collateral estoppel precludes re-litigation of issues in a subsequent proceeding when: (1) the party against whom the estoppel is asserted was a party to the prior adjudication, (2) the issues which form the basis of the estoppel were actually decided on the merits in the prior suit, (3) the resolution of the particular issues was necessary to the court’s judgment, and (4) those issues were identical to issues raised in the subsequent suit.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Although we look to the procedural guarantees granted by contract, ordinance, statute or regulation in assessing whether a property interest exists, the right to those procedural guarantees is not itself a property right.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.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.