511 F. Supp. 679 - Riechert v. Draud’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
5 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently September 2000
5 federal appellate ·
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. § 1988
Relies on Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Mt. Healthy City School District Board of Education v. Doyle · Pickering v. Board of Education of Township High School District 205 Will County Illinois · Perry v. Sindermann · Buckley v. Valeo
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The cost to the school system of defending the instant action must have exceeded $10,000 at a conservative estimate, not counting the cost of the administrators and teachers being absent from school, and other indirect costs. The primary task of administrators and teachers is to teach, not spend their time in court. Conscientious administrators, teachers, and board members can be deterred from public service by the threat of lawsuits____ Further, the concept of ‘chilling effect’ can cut two ways, since effective decisionmaking can easily be inhibited if suits can be too freely brought by disgruntled employees.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“that the proper test to be employed is whether the action or pattern of actions taken with regard to a government employee would, objectively viewed, be likely to chill the exercise of constitutionally protected speech of others in a comparable fashion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Reichert v. Draud“would be likely, as a practical matter, to chill the exercise of First Amendment rights of co-workers.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Reichert v. Draud
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.