Brett’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently February 2016
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 · Pickering v. Board of Education of Township High School District 205 Will County Illinois · Perry v. Sindermann · Elrod v. Burns · Branti v. Finkel
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“loyalty to the individual sheriff and the goals and policies he seeks to implement ... is an appropriate requirement for the effective performance of a deputy sheriff.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cutcliffe v. Cochran“for additional fact finding so that the district court can decide which test properly to apply in the First Amendment analysis.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cutcliffe v. Cochran“was based on their speech and actions during the election,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cutcliffe v. Cochran
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.