Delgado v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
282 F.3d 511 · 2002
Citation profile
32 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2025 · most notably Garcetti v. Ceballos (2006), Spiegla v. Hull (2004)
32 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 28 U.S.C. § 1291
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Pickering v. Board of Education of Township High School District 205 Will County Illinois · Hishon v. King & Spalding · Connick v. Myers · Siegert v. Gilley
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a balance between the interests of the employee, as a citizen, in commenting upon matters of public concern and the interest of the State, as an employer, in promoting the efficiency of public service.” Delgado, 282 F.3d at 517 (quoting Pickering v. Bd. of Educ., 391 U.S. 563, 568 , 88 S.Ct. 1731 , 20 L.Ed.2d 811 (1968)). The Pickering inquiry can seldom be done on the basis of pleadings alone, however, id., and Mr. Meuer's unsupported assertion that”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[Officer] Delgado’s communications with his superiors were designed not only to convey information of possible crimes, but also additional facts that were relevant to the manner and scope of any subsequent investigation.”) (emphasis in original); at others, they have provoked great consternation within those courts. E.g., Teague v. City of Flower Mound, 179 F.3d 377 , 383 (5th Cir.1999) (”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“After establishing that the plaintiff has adequately alleged a violation of a constitutional right, the second ... inquiry in a qualified immunity analysis involves whether the law was `clearly established' at the time of the alleged violation.”
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.