Pickering v. Washington’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently October 2022
4 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 213 So. 2d 169 - Hall v. State, Department of Highways · 246 So. 2d 46 - McCallum v. State, Department of Highways
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“However we know of no statute or reported decision which places an affirmative duty to construct left-turn lanes at a highway crossover even though the accident rate at such crossovers may be indicative that traffic has created a hazardous situation. To the contrary, the law places a duty on the motorist rather than the Department to ascertain whether a left turn or “U” turn can be made in safety.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Williams v. Peterson
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.