Russillo v. Scarborough’s Empirical Analysis
935 F.2d 1167 · 1991
Citation profile
192 federal appellate · 51 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 299 later decisions — most recently April 2016 · most notably Martin v. Nannie and the Newborns Inc (1993), Vitkus v. Beatrice Co. (1993)
192 federal appellate · 51 district · 6 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 28 U.S.C. § 1651
Relies on Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Cleveland Board of Education v. Loudermill · Bishop v. Wood · Carnegie-Mellon University v. Cohill · Salve Regina College v. Russell
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 299 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Summary judgment is appropriate when there is no genuine dispute over a material fact and the moving party is entitled to judgment as a matter of law.”
96 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“existing rules or understandings that stem from an independent source such as state law--rules or understandings that secure certain benefits and that support claims of entitlement to those benefits.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Ordinarily an employee's at-will status forecloses a property interest claim because the employee has no legitimate expectation of future employment.”
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.