Andreu v. Sapp’s Empirical Analysis
919 F.2d 637 · 1990
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably Courson v. McMillian (1991), Jenkins v. City of New York (2007)
17 federal appellate · 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 Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Mitchell v. Forsyth
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“plaintiff was suspended not terminated ") (emphasis in original). 30 In the instant case, the suspension simply did not discharge Plaintiff and did not sever his employment status. Defendant recognized that Plaintiff was still actively employed during his suspension because Plaintiff was not terminated until February 3, 2003, when Plaintiff returned to work. "If the suspension had amounted to a permanent removal, [formally] discharging him would not have been necessary.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“suspension was pending an internal investigation. If the department intended to permanently remove [plaintiff], no investigation would be necessary.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Qualified immunity is a defense to federal causes of action and does not protect officials from claims based upon state law.”
1 later decision 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.