Hinshaw v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
436 F.3d 997 · 2006
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 6 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently November 2021 · most notably Lindsey v. City of Orrick (2007), Nord v. Walsh County (2014)
13 federal appellate · 6 district · 2 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 Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Pickering v. Board of Education of Township High School District 205 Will County Illinois · Connick v. Myers · Elrod v. Burns
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]pplying the Pickering test we weigh the employee’s right to engage in the particular speech ... with such considerations as “whether the statement impairs discipline by superiors or harmony among co-workers, has a detrimental impact on close working relationships for which personal loyalty and confidence are necessary, or impedes the performance of the speaker’s duties or interferes with the regular operation of the enterprise.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Nord v. Walsh County
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.