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Khuans v. School District 110’s Empirical Analysis

123 F.3d 1010 · 1997

Citation profile

67
cited by 67 later decisions
September 2018
most recently cited

28 federal appellate ·

How this case has been cited

Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably Lewis v. Cowen (1999), Willie Jacobs and Linda Siller v. City of Chicago (2000)

28 federal appellate ·

330199720002010decided

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 · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Mt. Healthy City School District Board of Education v. Doyle · Pickering v. Board of Education of Township High School District 205 Will County Illinois · Perry v. Sindermann

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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “"[w]hen an employee speaks out about actual wrongdoing or breach of public trust on the part of her superiors, or speaks on serious matters of public concern, the government must make a more substantial showing than otherwise that the speech is, in fact, likely to be disruptive before the employee's actions may be punished. See Waters , 511 U.S. at 674, 114 S.Ct. at 1887 ; Connick , 461 U.S. at 148 , 152 , 103 S.Ct. at 1690 , 1692 .”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “created a potential problem in maintaining authority and discipline within the department.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “Public criticism of a government employer's policies can be protected speech.”
    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.