Lillian B. Waters v. Peter G. Peterson’s Empirical Analysis
495 F.2d 91 · 1973
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently March 1993 · most notably Janusaitis v. Middlebury Volunteer Fire Department (1979), Wallace v. Lynn (1974)
31 federal appellate · 1 district · 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 Pickering v. Board of Education of Township High School District 205 Will County Illinois · Broadrick v. Oklahoma · Cantwell v. State of Connecticut · Chaplinsky v. State of New Hampshire · Shelton v. Tucker
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“during a lunchtime demonstration at the agency cafeteria could not be suspended if their suspension 70 was predicated, . . . on the mere content of the sign they displayed as part of their demonstration. Government employees have protection of First Amendment freedoms even when their speech is critical of or embarrassing to their superiors, albeit this doctrine is subject to certain limitations. Pickering, supra; Meehan v. Macy, (infra). As already noted, the”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hanson v. Hoffmann“While the problem of overbreadth in the public employment sphere can raise First Amendment questions, see Shelton v. Tucker, 364 U.S. 479 , 81 S.Ct. 247 , 5 L.Ed.2d 231 (1960), it does not necessarily require the same remedy as overbreadth in criminal statutes . . Deterrence of legitimate speech must be minimized by proper application of the prohibition to activity not protected by the First Amendment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“virtually identical to conduct previously tolerated.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wolfel
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.