Denton v. Morgan’s Empirical Analysis
136 F.3d 1038 · 1998
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently August 2019 · most notably Cousin v. Trans Union Corp. (2001), Kennedy v. Tangipahoa Parish Library Board of Control (2000)
19 federal appellate · 1 district · 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Connick v. Myers · Pembaur v. City of Cincinnati · City of St. Louis v. Praprotnik · Salve Regina College v. Russell
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[S]peech reporting official misconduct, wrongdoing, or malfeasance on the part of public officials involves matters of public concern.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a juvenile recently released from Belton Detention Center. Although W.D.A. had been released from the detention center because the center had closed, the juvenile was still subject to a continuing detention order. As W.D.A.'s juvenile probation officers, the plaintiffs attempted to secure educational services for W.D.A. in the Clifton Independent School District (”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Denton v. Morgan“[n]either the accuracy of the speech, nor the motivation of the speaker, plays a role in determining whether the expression involves a matter of public concern.” Denton v. Morgan, 136 F.3d 1038, 1043 (5th Cir.1998). However, the Fifth Circuit has also noted that it has”
1 later decision 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.