Johnson v. Morris’s Empirical Analysis
903 F.2d 996 · 1990
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably Ridpath v. Board of Governors Marshall University (2006), Evans v. Chalmers (2012)
11 federal appellate · 3 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 · Paul v. Davis · Wisconsin v. Constantineau · Stone v. University of Maryland Medical System Corp. · Hershinow v. Mf Bonamarte
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'liberty interest is implicated by public announcement of reasons for an employee's discharge.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]n order to claim entitlement to the protection of the due process clause ... [Dunn] must first show that he has a constitutionally protected 'liberty' or 'property' interest, and that he has been 'deprived' of that protected interest by some form of 'state action'.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“is thwarted by the publication of the reasons for his discharge. See Boston, 783 F.2d at 1167 . We agree with the Seventh Circuit which held that when a police officer is suspended but not discharged he”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.