Meehan v. Macy’s Empirical Analysis
425 F.2d 469 · 1968
Citation profile
53 federal appellate · 7 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 109 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2018 · most notably Arnett v. Kennedy (1974), Rode v. Dellarciprete (1988)
53 federal appellate · 7 district · 7 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
Relies on New York Times Co. v. Sullivan · Pickering v. Board of Education of Township High School District 205 Will County Illinois · St. Amant v. Thompson · Garrison v. State of Louisiana · Wood v. Georgia
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 109 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * At the same time it cannot be gainsaid that the State has interests as an employer in regulating the speech of its employees that differ significantly from those it possesses in connection with regulation of the speech of the citizenry in general. The problem in any case is to arrive at a balance between the interests of the teacher, as a citizen, in commenting upon matters of public concern and the interest of the State, as an employer, in promoting the efficiency of the public services it performs through its employees.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“permit introduction of additional evidence and argument on points that have a significance ... previously only dimly discerned”
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.