Workman v. Jordan’s Empirical Analysis
32 F.3d 475 · 1994
Citation profile
45 federal appellate · 52 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 140 later decisions — most recently July 2024 · most notably Tonkovich v. Kansas Board of Regents (1998), David v. City And County Of Denver (1997)
45 federal appellate · 52 district · 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Anderson v. Creighton · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Cleveland Board of Education v. Loudermill
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 140 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“First, to be actionable, the statements must impugn the good name, reputation, honor, or integrity of the employee. Second, the statements must be false. Third, the statements must occur in the course of terminating the employee or must foreclose other employment opportunities. And fourth, the statements must be published. These elements are not disjunctive, all must be satisfied to demonstrate deprivation of the liberty interest.”
20 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[q]ualified immunity protects public officials from individual liability in a § 1983 action unless the officials violated 'clearly established ... constitutional rights of which a reasonable person would have known.'”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“content, form and context of a given statement, as revealed by the whole record.”
4 later decisions 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.