Melvin Urofsky’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
11 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably Asociacin De Educacin Privada De Puerto Rico Inc v. Garca-Padilla, 337 F. Supp. 2d 709 - Sheaffer v. County of Chatham (2004)
11 district · 2 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 Pickering v. Board of Education of Township High School District 205 Will County Illinois · Connick v. Myers · Elrod v. Burns · Grayned v. City of Rockford · Roth v. United States
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Speech involves a matter of public concern when it involves an issue of social, political, or other interest to a community.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[In Sweezy, ] six justices agreed that the First Amendment protects values of academic freedom.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“governmental intrusion into the intellectual life of a university”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.