Anne Gardetto v. Roy Mason Eastern Wyoming College -’s Empirical Analysis
100 F.3d 803 · 1996
Citation profile
65 federal appellate · 35 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 138 later decisions — most recently April 2024 · most notably O'neal v. Ferguson Construction Co. (2001), Dill v. City of Edmond (1998)
65 federal appellate · 35 district · 3 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 Mt. Healthy City School District Board of Education v. Doyle · Pickering v. Board of Education of Township High School District 205 Will County Illinois · Connick v. Myers · Buckley v. Valeo · Rankin v. McPherson
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 138 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in promoting the efficiency of the public services it performs through its employees,”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“prove that the protected speech was a substantial factor or a motivating factor in the detrimental employment decision.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“purely speculative allegations that certain statements caused or will cause disruption.”
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.