Davignon v. Hodgson’s Empirical Analysis
524 F.3d 91 · 2008
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 24 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently October 2024 · most notably Depuy Spine, Inc. v. Medtronic Sofamor Danek, Inc. (2009), Welch v. Ciampa (2008)
15 federal appellate · 24 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 Mt. Healthy City School District Board of Education v. Doyle · Pickering v. Board of Education of Township High School District 205 Will County Illinois · Connick v. Myers · Garcetti v. Ceballos · Smith v. Wade
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) 'the time, place, and manner of the employee's speech,' and (2) 'the employer's motivation in making the adverse employment decision.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“preventing unnecessary disruptions and inefficiencies in carrying out its public service mission.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“consider . . . speech's potential to disrupt,”
2 later decisions 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.