Hughes v. Bedsole’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 706
Relies on Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Mt. Healthy City School District Board of Education v. Doyle · Connick v. Myers · Bishop v. Wood · City of St. Louis v. Praprotnik
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Each sheriff ... elected by the people has the exclusive right to hire, discharge, and supervise the employees in his office”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jackson v. Long
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.