Meehan v. Macy’s Empirical Analysis
425 F.2d 472 · 1969
Citation profile
62 federal appellate · 6 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 118 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2018 · most notably Arnett v. Kennedy (1974), Rode v. Dellarciprete (1988)
62 federal appellate · 6 district · 11 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 Pickering v. Board of Education of Township High School District 205 Will County Illinois · Dennis v. United States · Schenck v. United States · Meehan v. Macy
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 118 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Commission may consider this an appropriate time to reconsider its precedents in view of Pickering and to establish general guidelines insofar as that may be feasible.”
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.