Muller v. Conlisk’s Empirical Analysis
429 F.2d 901 · 1970
Citation profile
53 federal appellate · 9 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 112 later decisions — most recently August 2015 · most notably Egger v. Phillips (1983), Davis v. Heckler (1989)
53 federal appellate · 9 district · 18 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 · Cantwell v. State of Connecticut · National Association for Advancement of Colored People v. Y Button · Dombrowski v. Pfister · Thornhill v. Alabama
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 112 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`[P]olicemen, like teachers and lawyers, are not relegated to a watered-down version of constitutional rights,'”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“'(e)ngaging in any activity, conversation, deliberation, or discussion which is derogatory to the Department or any member or policy of the Department'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“Other federal cases explain that even in the area of pure speech, "* * * 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 * * *.”
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.