Swartz v. Scruton’s Empirical Analysis
964 F.2d 607 · 1992
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently November 2018
3 federal appellate · 1 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
Relies on Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Will v. Michigan Department of State Police · Olim v. Wakinekona · Memphis Light, Gas & Water Division v. Craft · Archie v. City of Racine
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.
“[p]rocedural interests under state law are not themselves property rights that will be enforced in the name of the constitution,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“entitlement to the process--the 'method'--by which his merit pay raise is determined is not a constitutionally protected property interest”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[p]rocess is not an end in itself. Its constitutional purpose is to protect a substantive interest to which the individual has a legitimate claim of entitlement.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.