Grantham v. Trickey’s Empirical Analysis
21 F.3d 289 · 1994
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 5 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently March 2016 · most notably Kincade v. City of Blue Springs (1995), Belk v. City of Eldon (2000)
31 federal appellate · 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Anderson v. Creighton · Pickering v. Board of Education of Township High School District 205 Will County Illinois · Connick v. Myers · Malley v. Briggs
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“when Pickering's fact-intensive balancing test is at issue, the asserted First Amendment right can rarely be considered clearly established for purposes of the Harlow qualified immunity standard.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“specific and unrefuted evidence that [the plaintiff's speech] ... substantially disrupted the work environment,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“must go beyond the normal hostility between parties to litigation”
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.