Vojvodich v. Lopez’s Empirical Analysis
48 F.3d 879 · 1995
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently August 2020 · most notably Ledergerber v. Stangler (1997), Beattie v. Madison County School District (2001)
21 federal appellate · 2 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 Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Harlow v. Fitzgerald · 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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“cases involving public employees who occupy policymaker or confidential positions ..., the government's interests more easily outweigh the employee's (as a private citizen).”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]here can be no question that ... campaigning for a political candidate ... relate[s] to a matter of public concern.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A] public employer cannot act against an employee because of the employee's affiliation or support of a rival candidate unless the employee's activities in some way adversely affect the government's ability to provide services.”
4 later decisions 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.