Atcherson v. Siebenmann’s Empirical Analysis
605 F.2d 1058 · 1979
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2024 · most notably Waters v. Churchill (1994), Conaway v. Smith (1988)
28 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 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
Relies on Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Scheuer v. Rhodes · Pickering v. Board of Education of Township High School District 205 Will County Illinois · Pierson v. Ray · Butz v. Economou
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“allegations of missappropriation of public funds by her coworkers represent a matter of compelling public concern”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he enforcement of [a chain-of-command] rule against an employee seeking to criticize the very superior empowered to review [the employees' complaints] would impermissibly chill first amendment rights. Atcherson v. Siebenmann, 605 F.2d 1058 , 1063 n. 5 (8th Cir.1979).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“Because of our disposition of the qualified immunity issue, we do not reach Judge Siebenmann’s argument that his conduct in terminating Atcherson’s employment was cloaked in absolute judicial immunity.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Ohse v. Hughes
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.