Wolfe v. Barnhart’s Empirical Analysis
446 F.3d 1096 · 2006
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently June 2022
8 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 · Connick v. Myers · Waters v. Churchill · Crandon v. United States · Sims v. Apfel
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The importance of the government's interest in avoiding impropriety or the appearance thereof among its employees is well established.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“relates to the employee's official duties.”
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.