United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 19 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 79 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably Taylor v. Canteen Corp. (1995), 164 F. Supp. 2d 455 - Marrero v. Camden County Board of Social Services (2001)
1 federal appellate · 19 district · 6 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 Mt. Healthy City School District Board of Education v. Doyle · Pickering v. Board of Education of Township High School District 205 Will County Illinois · Connick v. Myers · Bose Corp. v. Consumers Union of United States, Inc. · Smith v. Wade
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 79 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the First Amendment balancing test [of Pickering ] can hardly be controlled by a finding that disruption did occur. An employee who accurately exposes rampant corruption in her office may disrupt and demoralize much of the office. But it would be absurd to hold that the First Amendment generally authorizes corrupt officials to punish subordinates simply because the speech somewhat disrupted the office .... The point is simply that the balancing test articulated in Pickering is truly a balancing test, with office disruption or breached confidences being only weights on the scales.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Disclosing corruption fraud and illegality in a gov ernment agency is a matter of significant public concern.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the reasonable period required by [plaintiff] to reestablish her rightful place in the job market,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.