Van Deelen v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
497 F.3d 1151 · 2007
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 6 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 240 later decisions — most recently April 2024 · most notably Dudnikov v. Chalk & Vermilion Fine Arts, Inc. (2008), Jordan v. Sosa (2011)
13 federal appellate · 6 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1367 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Pickering v. Board of Education of Township High School District 205 Will County Illinois · Connick v. Myers · Erickson v. Pardus · Garcetti v. Ceballos · United States v. Cruikshank
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 240 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This is, of course, not to say that the “public concern” test proffered by defendants and adopted by the district court has no place in the law of the First Anendment. Rather, the test quite properly applies to claims brought by government employees — but its scope reaches no further.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Don’t come back. Johnson and Miles are mad because you sued them. They told me to do whatever necessary to put a scare into you. If you show up for another tax appeal hearing, I might have to shoot you.”
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.