Sullivan v. Ramirez’s Empirical Analysis
360 F.3d 692 · 2004
Citation profile
30 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Pickering v. Board of Education of Township High School District 205 Will County Illinois · Connick v. Myers
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The `public concern' element must relate to a community concern and is not satisfied by `merely a personal grievance of interest only to the employee.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the content, form, and context of [the speech] as revealed by the whole record.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]o determine whether speech is constitutionally protected, we engage in a familiar two-part inquiry traditionally known as the Connick-Pickering test.” Sullivan v. Ramirez, 360 F.3d 692 , 697 (7th Cir.2004) (citing Coady v. Steil, 187 F.3d 727 , 731 (7th Cir.1999); Connick v. Myers, 461 U.S. 138 , 103 S.Ct. 1684 , 75 L.Ed.2d 708 (1983); Pickering v. Bd. of Educ., 391 U.S. 563 , 88 S.Ct. 1731 , 20 L.Ed.2d 811 (1968)).”
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.