Shockency v. Ramsey County’s Empirical Analysis
493 F.3d 941 · 2007
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 6 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently November 2021 · most notably Shannon v. Koehler (2010), Bergeron v. Cabral (2009)
11 federal appellate · 6 district ·
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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Anderson v. Creighton · Pickering v. Board of Education of Township High School District 205 Will County Illinois · Connick v. Myers · Scott v. Harris
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.
“[l]esser actions than demotion, suspension, and termination can be adverse employment actions if their cumulative effect causes an employee to suffer 'serious employment consequences' that adversely affect or undermine his position.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Qualified immunity cannot be based on a simple assertion by the employer ... without supporting evidence of the adverse effect of the speech on workplace efficiency.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Morgan v. Robinson“must be sufficiently clear [so] that a reasonable official would understand that what he is doing violates that right.”
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.