Bridges v. Gilbert’s Empirical Analysis
557 F.3d 541 · 2009
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 2 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 113 later decisions — most recently December 2025 · most notably Brightwell v. Lehman (2011), Doe v. City of Albuquerque (2012)
24 federal appellate · 2 district · 10 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 28 U.S.C. § 1915A · 42 U.S.C. § 1997E
Relies on Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly · Pickering v. Board of Education of Township High School District 205 Will County Illinois · Connick v. Myers · Erickson v. Pardus · Turner v. Safley
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 113 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) he engaged in activity protected by the First Amendment; (2) he suffered a deprivation that would likely deter First Amendment activity in the future; and (3) the First Amendment activity was at least a motivating factor in the defendant's decision to take the retaliatory action.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“currently exercising his right to petition the government for redress of grievances through this lawsuit.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.