Victor v. McElveen’s Empirical Analysis
150 F.3d 451 · 1998
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently March 2019
9 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 New York Times Co. v. Sullivan · United States v. Diebold, Inc. · Pickering v. Board of Education of Township High School District 205 Will County Illinois · Perry v. Sindermann · Connick v. Myers
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.
“[W]hen an employee speaks in response to an invitation and on a matter pertinent to that request, the context factor weighs in his favor.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The Supreme Court has recognized as pertinent considerations 'whether the statement impairs discipline by superiors or harmony among co-workers, has a detrimental impact on close working relationships for which personal loyalty and confidence are necessary, or impedes the performance of the speaker's duties or interferes with the regular operation of the enterprise.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“will be less likely to give false evidence in court or fabricate statements that might endanger the liberty of innocent citizens. B. Pickering Balancing Test 29 Because Branton's statement addressed a matter of public concern, Pickering next requires that we balance Branton's interest in making her statement against”
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.