Martin v. Baugh’s Empirical Analysis
141 F.3d 1417 · 1998
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently September 2024
6 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Pickering v. Board of Education of Township High School District 205 Will County Illinois · Connick v. Myers · Johnson v. Jones · Lassiter v. Alabama · Dartland v. Metropolitan Dade County
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“public concern,” Defendant Chandler, the only defendant sued in his individual capacity, would still be entitled to qualified immunity on the First Amendment claim. To defeat a claim for qualified immunity, a plaintiff must show that the federal right he accuses the defendant of violating was”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Martin points to no case, and we find none after our own search, that would have made it obvious to a person in Baugh's position that Martin's speech ... was constitutionally protected.”
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.