City of North Muskegon Et Al. v. Briggs’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 6 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2018 · most notably McCabe v. Ce Sharrett (1994), Thorne v. City of El Segundo (1986)
18 federal appellate · 6 district · 9 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 Sea-Land Service, Inc. v. Federal Maritime Commission · United States v. American College of Physicians · Whisenhunt v. Spradlin · People v. Onofre · Shawgo v. Spradlin
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“over whether extramarital sexual activity, including allegedly unlawful adulterous activity is constitutionally protected in a way that forbids public employers to discipline employees who engage in such activity.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.