Susan Gerhart Hayes Edward Hayes Glenn Goerke James Hale William Staples’s Empirical Analysis
217 F.3d 320 · 2000
Citation profile
8 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently August 2021
8 federal appellate ·
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 Mt. Healthy City School District Board of Education v. Doyle · Connick v. Myers · Crawford-El v. Britton · United States v. Parker · Moore v. City of Kilgore
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[E]ven if we assume the exercise of protected first amendment activity played a substantial part in the decision to terminate an employee, the termination is not unconstitutional if the employee would have been terminated anyway.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“); White v. South Park Indep. Sch. Dist., 693 F.2d 1163 , 1169 (5th Cir. 1982) (”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“even in the absence of the protected conduct.”
1 later decision 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.