Wilson v. Taylor’s Empirical Analysis
658 F.2d 1021 · 1981
Citation profile
87 federal appellate · 1 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 155 later decisions — most recently February 2021 · most notably Davis v. Heckler (1989), Ryland v. Shapiro (1983)
87 federal appellate · 1 district · 12 state decisions — followed in 10 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 Mt. Healthy City School District Board of Education v. Doyle · Pickering v. Board of Education of Township High School District 205 Will County Illinois · Buckley v. Valeo · Elrod v. Burns · Broadrick v. Oklahoma
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 155 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“cannot disregard the precedent set by a prior panel,”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a] fundamental proposition in our constitutional jurisprudence is that government employment may not be conditioned upon a relinquishment of a constitutional right, including the rights to speech and association guaranteed under the First Amendment.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Mote v. Walthall · Wilson v. Taylor“may not recover--as damages for the procedural due process violation--back pay ... which would have accrued had [he] worked from the date of the procedurally improper discharge ... until the date of the procedurally improper hearing.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.