Youker v. Schoenenberger’s Empirical Analysis
22 F.3d 163 · 1994
Citation profile
12 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably Rice-Lamar v. City of Fort Lauderdale (2000), Methodist Medical Center of Illinois v. American Medical Security Incorporated (1994)
12 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Pickering v. Board of Education of Township High School District 205 Will County Illinois · Connick v. Myers · 74 Ill. 2d 172 - Kelsay v. Motorola, Inc. · Wrenn v. Gould · FW/PBS, Inc. v. City of Dallas
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it was not speech as a citizen because Youker represented, without authority, that [the speech] was [his supervisor's] official speech.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“because Youker was an employee of the Milton Assessor's office, and, when acting in that capacity, identifying fraud in homestead exemptions was part of his responsibilities, the letter represented not his personal opinion (speech) but the opinion of the Milton Assessor's Office.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“utilize the same standard of decision making as that employed by the district court.”
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.