West v. Grand County’s Empirical Analysis
967 F.2d 362 · 1992
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 13 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently September 2016 · most notably Hennigh v. City of Shawnee (1998), Riggins v. Goodman (2009)
23 federal appellate · 13 district · 4 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. § 1291 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Wolff v. McDonnell · Cleveland Board of Education v. Loudermill · Boddie v. Connecticut
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.
“individual entitled to due process protection needs only to be given notice and an opportunity to respond”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]hen a person's employment can be terminated only for specified reasons, his or her expectation of continued employment is sufficient to invoke the protections of the Fourteenth Amendment.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a] brief face-to-face meeting with a supervisor provides sufficient notice and opportunity to respond to satisfy the pretermination due process requirements of Loudermill.”
5 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.