Messman v. Helmke’s Empirical Analysis
133 F.3d 1042 · 1998
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently April 2019
10 federal appellate · 1 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 Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. · Pickering v. Board of Education of Township High School District 205 Will County Illinois · Connick v. Myers · United States v. O'Brien
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a union's internal governing rules usually are not subject to First Amendment prohibitions”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“). That the Union and Fort Wayne have complementary rules simply does not establish joint action or a nexus between Fort Wayne's contract with its firefighters and the Union's adoption of Article XI, Section 1E, of its constitution. Cf. International Bhd. of Teamsters, 941 F.2d at 1297 (”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Messman v. Helmke“). 8 The firefighters, relying on Jackson v. Metropolitan Edison Co., 419 U.S. 345, 351 , 95 S.Ct. 449, 453 , 42 L.Ed.2d 477 (1974), argue that the Union is a state actor for purposes of its constitutional provision: Article 20, Section 7 (of the CBA), they contend, is”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Messman v. Helmke
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.