Mullin v. Gettinger’s Empirical Analysis
450 F.3d 280 · 2006
Citation profile
6 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Dey v. Colt Construction & Development Co. · Oest v. Illinois Department of Corrections · Spiegla v. Hull · Ajayi v. Aramark Business Services, Inc. · Cromley v. Board of Education
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he fact that a plaintiff's protected speech may precede an adverse employment decision alone does not establish causation”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Daza v. State
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.