Martin v. Itasca County’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 state decisions

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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[T]he United States Supreme Court recognized that our history as a democratic nation demonstrates that broadly prohibiting political activity by government employees is necessary to ensure that civil servants serve the public and not a political party. A legislative body may prohibit a government employee from becoming a candidate for elective office not only to prevent potential conflict in the workplace between the employee and the supervisor-incumbent during the campaign, but also to prevent any tacit coercion of fellow employees and subordinates to’assist in a political campaign. This policy promotes efficiency and integrity in government ranks and also prevents both “danger to the service in that political rather than official effort may earn advancement and to the public in that governmental favor may be channeled through political connections.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Hayes v. City of Sheridan

2. “even though only temporary, subjected him to a financial loss of a magnitude sufficient to constitute a deprivation of a property interest which invokes the procedural protection afforded by the fourteenth amendment to the United States Constitution.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Bostean v. Los Angeles Unified School Dist.