Renken v. Gregory’s Empirical Analysis
541 F.3d 769 · 2008
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently August 2023 · most notably Weintraub v. Board of Education (2010), Fairley v. Andrews (2009)
13 federal appellate · 4 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Garcetti v. Ceballos · Tamayo v. Blagojevich · Spiegla v. Hull · Sigsworth v. City of Aurora · Morales v. Jones
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]hen public employees make statements pursuant to their official duties, the employees are not speaking as citizens for First Amendment purposes, and the Constitution does not insulate their communications from employer discipline.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[The professor] called attention to fund misuse relating to a project that he was in charge of administering as a University faculty members [sic]. In so doing, [the professor] was speaking as a faculty employee, and not as a private citizen, because administering the grant as a PI fell within the teaching and service duties that he was employed to perform.”
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.