Patrick Devlin v. Richard Kalm’s Empirical Analysis
2015
Citation profile
1 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1291
Relies on Pickering v. Board of Education of Township High School District 205 Will County Illinois · Pearson v. Callahan · Connick v. Myers · Garcetti v. Ceballos · Rankin v. McPherson
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]e see no reason to analyze this single word separately from the entirety of [the plaintiff's] statements-which we already have found to be protected[.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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