Buazard v. Meridith’s Empirical Analysis
172 F.3d 546 · 1999
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 6 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently April 2018 · most notably Belk v. City of Eldon (2000), Ceballos v. Garcetti (2004)
29 federal appellate · 6 district ·
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 Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Mt. Healthy City School District Board of Education v. Doyle · Pickering v. Board of Education of Township High School District 205 Will County Illinois · Connick v. Myers · Rankin v. McPherson
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[u]nless the employee is speaking as a concerned citizen, and not just as an employee, the speech does not fall under the protection of the First Amendment.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Whether an employee's speech addresses a matter of public concern must be determined by the content, form, and context”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“When a public employee's speech is purely job-related, that speech will not be deemed a matter of public concern.”
2 later decisions 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.