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Schad v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis

415 F.3d 671 · 2005

Citation profile

12
cited by 12 later decisions
July 2013
most recently cited

8 federal appellate ·

Relationships

Relies on Anderson v. Creighton · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Pickering v. Board of Education of Township High School District 205 Will County Illinois · Connick v. Myers · Duncan v. Walker

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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “employee speaks not as a citizen upon matters of public concern, but instead as an employee upon matters only of personal interest ... a federal court is not the appropriate forum in which to review the wisdom of the personnel decision taken by a public agency.. . .”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “`as long as their actions could reasonably have been thought consistent with the rights they are alleged to have violated.'”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “there is no genuine issue as to any material fact and that [they are] entitled to a judgment as a matter of law.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

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.