Egger v. Phillips’s Empirical Analysis
669 F.2d 497 · 1982
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Scheuer v. Rhodes · United States v. Diebold, Inc. · Mt. Healthy City School District Board of Education v. Doyle · Pickering v. Board of Education of Township High School District 205 Will County Illinois · Perry v. Sindermann
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“defendant's assertion of good faith immunity raises precisely the same issue of motive and intent as does plaintiff's First Amendment claim”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Egger's criticisms were so abrasive or disruptive of office routine as to be denied First Amendment protection as a matter of law,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Egger v. Phillips“insubordinate, arrogant, uncooperative, devious, untruthful, unpredictable, eccentric, unreliable,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Egger v. Phillips
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.