Klug v. Chicago School Reform Board of Trustees’s Empirical Analysis

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18 federal appellate · 1 state decisions

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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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “In Pickering v. Board of Education, 391 U.S. 563 , 88 S.Ct. 1731 , 20 L.Ed.2d 811 (1968), the Court set out a two-pronged balancing test to determine whether a public employee’s First Amendment rights have been violated. First, it must be determined whether the speech (or . association) is on a matter of public concern. If it is, then the court must balance the interest of the public employee, as a citizen, in commenting upon matters of public concern with the interest of the government, as the employer, in promoting the efficiency of the public services it provides.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 227 F. Supp. 2d 939 - McGreal v. Ostrov · 79 F. Supp. 2d 919 - Chicago School Reform Board of Trustees v. Substance, Inc.

2. “In this circuit, a public employee is protected from adverse employment consequences based on the exercise of the right to freedom of association only when the associational conduct relates to a matter of public concern.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Cobb v. Pozzi

3. “[i]t has been thought important that officials of government should be free to exercise their duties unembarrassed by the fear of damage suits in respect of acts done in the course of those duties . . . .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Karen Horwitz v. Board of Education of Avoca School District