Thompson v. Gallagher’s Empirical Analysis
489 F.2d 443 · 1973
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 3 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently June 2023 · most notably 406 F. Supp. 318 - Pugh v. Locke (1976), 277 Pa. Super. 4 - Hunter v. Port Authority of Allegheny County (1980)
23 federal appellate · 3 district · 5 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 Pickering v. Board of Education of Township High School District 205 Will County Illinois · Goldberg v. Kelly · Shapiro v. Thompson · Bolling v. Sharpe · Cafeteria & Restaurant Workers Union, Local 473 v. McElroy
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A regulation not reasonably related to a valid government interest may not stand in the face of a due process attack.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Just as a public employee does not give up his First Amendment rights when he begins receiving a pay check from the government, neither does he give up his right to due process of law. The Fourteenth Amendment stands for the proposition that the government must act, when it acts, in a manner which is neither arbitrary nor unreasonable. This stricture is in addition to those which restrict the government from acting in a manner which impinges on freedom to speak or association, or to be free from self-incrimination. It is one which most certainly applies not only to the government as policeman but also to the government as employer. Public employees are every bit as protected by the Fourteenth Amendment’s safeguards as is the rest of the populace [citations omitted].””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In many cases ... it makes little difference which clause of the Fourteenth Amendment is used to test the statute in question. The question is whether the challenged statute is a rational means of advancing a valid state interest.”
2 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.