Warnock v. Pecos County, Texas’s Empirical Analysis
116 F.3d 776 · 1997
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably Brady v. Fort Bend County (1998), Mitchell v. Chapman (2003)
23 federal appellate · 8 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 Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Anderson v. Creighton · 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
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the fact that the deputies were terminated by a 'failure to rehire' rather than a 'dismissal' is irrelevant to the question of whether they were impermissibly terminated for exercising their First Amendment rights.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[by] reporting specific wrongs and abuses within the county government, Warnock was attempting to improve the quality of government.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“For our purposes, there is no difference between firing and declining to re-appoint.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.