Rogers v. Kelly’s Empirical Analysis
866 F.2d 997 · 1989
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently May 2003
9 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. § 1988
Relies on Anderson v. City of Bessemer City · Hensley v. Eckerhart · Cleveland Board of Education v. Loudermill · Carey v. Piphus · Quern v. Jordan
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We ... cannot say that the district court clearly erred in finding that [plaintiff] would have been fired even if he had received due process. We therefore affirm the district court's award of nominal damages only.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Brewer v. Chauvin“would have been fired even if he had been accorded due process is a finding of fact, which we may not set aside unless clearly erroneous.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hopkins v. Saunders“account of the evidence is plausible in light of the record viewed in its entirety.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hopkins v. Saunders
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.