Hoopes v. Nacrelli’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently May 2001
8 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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 18 U.S.C. § 241 (Church Arson Prevention Act of 1996) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1985
Relies on Foman v. Davis · Pickering v. Board of Education of Township High School District 205 Will County Illinois · Bullock v. United States · Motes v. United States · Brawer v. Horowitz
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“1. Whether plaintiff, in the course of his activities, made statements which were directed against a person with whom he had regular contact within the daily course of his duties; 2. Whether plaintiff’s activities created a problem with maintaining discipline by immediate superiors or with maintaining harmony among co-workers; 3. Whether the relationship between superior and subordinates was of such a personal and intimate nature that plaintiff’s activities seriously undermined the working relationship between them; 4. Whether plaintiff’s activities substantially impeded the plaintiff’s performance of his official duties; and 5. Whether the plaintiff’s activities related primarily to matters of concern to the plaintiff personally, as opposed to matters of concern to the public generally-”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“a witness' testimony is certainly protected speech,”
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.