James v. Texas Collin County’s Empirical Analysis
535 F.3d 365 · 2008
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions — most recently June 2022 · most notably Doe ex rel. Magee v. Covington County School District (2012), Whitley v. Hanna (2013)
11 federal appellate · 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Pickering v. Board of Education of Township High School District 205 Will County Illinois · Broadrick v. Oklahoma · City of St. Louis v. Praprotnik · Garcetti v. Ceballos
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“James asserts that he suffered an adverse employment action, his termination, because he exercised his First Amendment rights on two separate occasions. The first was his June 19, 2003 letter reporting Kleinheksel for various inappropriate conduct. The second was his 2004 campaign-for the Republican nomination .for C.ollin County Commissioner. We will analyze each separately.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) he suffered an adverse employment action, (2) his speech [or petition] involved a matter of public concern, (3) his interest in commenting on the matter of public concern outweighed the defendant's interest in promoting efficiency..., and (4) his speech [or petition] was a substantial or motivating factor behind the defendant's actions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“a plaintiff must (1) allege a violation of a right secured by the Constitution...and (2) demonstrate that the alleged deprivation was committed by a person acting under color of state law.”
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.