Lambert v. Richard’s Empirical Analysis
59 F.3d 134 · 1995
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently June 2015
10 federal appellate · 1 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 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Pickering v. Board of Education of Township High School District 205 Will County Illinois · Connick v. Myers · Waters v. Churchill · Jesinger v. Nevada Federal Credit Union · Insurance Co. of North America v. United States Department of Labor
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the employee's interest in expressing herself on th[e] matter [is not] outweighed by any injury that the speech could cause to the interest of the State, as an employer, in promoting the efficiency of the public services it performs through its employees.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Carmen v. Boyd“is belied by the facts that Lambert spoke as a union representative, not as an individual, and that she described departmental problems, not private grievances. Cf. Connick, 461 U.S. at 141 , 103 S.Ct. at 1687 (not a matter of public concern when remarks”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lambert v. Richard“for insubordinate action taken by [her] at an evening session of the City Council and for not utilizing established procedures for a grievance.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lambert v. Richard
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.