Robert T. Magill v. Dennis M. Lynch’s Empirical Analysis
560 F.2d 22 · 1977
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 3 district · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably Painter v. Graley (1994), Bart v. Telford (1982)
20 federal appellate · 3 district · 17 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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
Relies on Pickering v. Board of Education of Township High School District 205 Will County Illinois · Broadrick v. Oklahoma · United Public Workers of America v. Mitchell · United States Civil Service Commission v. National Ass'n of Letter Carriers · Gooding v. Wilson
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Measuring the substantiality of a statute's overbreadth apparently requires, inter alia, a rough balancing of the number of valid applications compared to the number of potentially invalid applications.... [A]n overbreadth challenger has a duty to provide the court with some idea of the number of potentially invalid applications the statute permits.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[I]f any employee of the city shall become a candidate for nomination or election to any elective public office within Dallas County; or elective public office in another county within the state, having contractual relations with the city, direct or indirect; or any elective public office which would conflict with his position as an employee of the city, he shall immediately forfeit his place or position with the city.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The city could reasonably fear the prospect of a subordinate running directly against his superior or running for a position that confers great power over his superior____ The possibilities of internal discussion, cliques, and political bargaining, should an employee gather substantial political support, are considerable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.