Phillips v. Adult Probation Department of San Francisco’s Empirical Analysis
491 F.2d 951 · 1974
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Pickering v. Board of Education of Township High School District 205 Will County Illinois · Keyishian v. Board of Regents of Univ. of State of NY · Cox v. State of Louisiana · Trujillo v. United States · Meehan v. Macy
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it cannot be gainsaid that the State has interests as an employer in regulating the speech of its employees that differ significantly from those it possesses in connection with regulation of the speech of the citizenry in general.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“if [he had] not take[n] immediate action, ... morale would have been devastat[ed] at a time when tremendously heavy case loads impose[d] a severe burden upon [the] staff.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Allen v. Scribner“(t)he theory that public employment which may be denied altogether may be subjected to any conditions, regardless of how unreasonable, has been uniformly rejected”
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.