Vila v. J Padrn’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently July 2025 · most notably Schumann v. Dianon Systems, Inc. (2012), Edward R. Lane v. Central Alabama Community College (2013)
1 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 Connick v. Myers · Garcetti v. Ceballos · Rankin v. McPherson · Bryson v. City of Waycross · Battle United States v. Board of Regents for the State of Georgia K L
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) she was speaking as a citizen on a matter of public concern; (2) her interests as a citizen outweighed the interests of the [government] as an employer; and (3) the speech played a substantial or motivating role in the adverse employment action. If the plaintiff establishes these elements, the burden shifts to the defendant to prove [ (4) ] it would have made the same adverse employment decision absent the employee’s speech.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'the main thrust of the speech in question is essentially public,'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the content, form, and context of a given statement, as revealed by the whole record.”
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.