Robinson’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
5 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently April 2017
5 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
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Mt. Healthy City School District Board of Education v. Doyle · Pickering v. Board of Education of Township High School District 205 Will County Illinois · City of Canton v. Harris · 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“By Responding to the Board's invitation to testify at a public hearing and by cooperating with law enforcement investigators, Robinson and Marc spoke not in their `capacity as . . . public employee[s],' DiMeglio, 45 F.3d at 805 , but as `citizen[s] upon matters of public concern.' Connick, 461 U.S. at 147 , 103 S. Ct. 1684 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Melvin Urofsky · Urofsky v. Gilmore“First, a majority of the Court agreed that municipalities may be held liable under § 1983 only for acts for which the municipality itself is actually responsible ... acts which the municipality has officially sanctioned or ordered. Second, only those municipal officials who have final policymaking authority may ... subject the government to § 1983 liability. Third, whether a particular official has final policymaking authority is a question of state law. Fourth, the challenged action must have been taken pursuant to a policy adopted by the official or officials responsible under state law for making policy in that area of the city’s business.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.