Marshall v. Porter County Plan Commission’s Empirical Analysis
32 F.3d 1215 · 1994
Citation profile
42 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 79 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably Spiegla v. Hull (2004), Wright v. Illinois Department of Children & Family Services (1994)
42 federal appellate · 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 636 · 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 · Elrod v. Burns · Branti v. Finkel · Waters v. Churchill
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 79 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“concerns a subject of public interest but the expression addresses only the personal effect upon the employee.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“it is necessary to 'look at the point of the speech in question: was it the employee's point to bring wrongdoing to light? Or to raise other issues of public concern, because they are of public concern? Or was the point to further some purely private interest?'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Our cases do not restrict the rights of policymakers to such an extent that they have no First Amendment rights, regardless of the content of their speech. The Branti/ Elrod cases [Branti v. Finkel, 445 U.S. 507 , 100 S.Ct. 1287, 63 L.Ed.2d 574 (1980), Elrod v. Burns, 427 U.S. 347 , 96 S.Ct. 2673, 49 L.Ed.2d 547 (1976) ] apply when the plaintiff's politics are implicated in the discharge; then the court asks whether the plaintiff is in a policymaking or confidential position.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Warzon v. Drew
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.