Colson v. Grohman’s Empirical Analysis
174 F.3d 498 · 1999
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 3 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 137 later decisions — most recently September 2024 · most notably Kinney v. Weaver (2004), Suarez Corporation Industries v. Darrell V. Mcgraw, Jr. (2000)
24 federal appellate · 3 district · 5 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 Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · New York Times Co. v. Sullivan · Mt. Healthy City School District Board of Education v. Doyle · Pickering v. Board of Education of Township High School District 205 Will County Illinois · Perry v. Sindermann
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 137 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“alleged only that she was the victim of criticism, an investigation (or an attempt to start one), and false accusations: all harms that, while they may chill speech, are not actionable under our First Amendment retaliation jurisprudence”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[T]he First Amendment prohibits not only direct limitations on speech but also adverse government action against an individual because of her exercise of First Amendment freedoms.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Izen v. Catalina · Kinney v. Weaver“[C]riticism of public officials lies at the very core of speech protected by the First Amendment.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Charles Naucke Theresa Naucke John Duval v. City of Park Hills James Link, Personally and in His Official Capacity as City Administrator for the City of Park Hills, Wheaton Usa, Inc., a New Jersey Corporation, Charles Naucke John Duvall v. City of Park Hills, James Link, Personally and in His Official Capacity as City Administrator for the City of Park Hills, Wheaton Usa, Inc., a New Jersey Corporation · Naucke
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.