Monsanto v. Quinn’s Empirical Analysis
674 F.2d 990 · 1982
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 7 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably Egger v. Phillips (1983), McGreevy v. Stroup (2005)
23 federal appellate · 7 district · 3 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 26 U.S.C. § 6103
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 · Parker v. Levy · Givhan v. Western Line Consolidated School District · Bullock v. United States
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]e do not underestimate the internal unease or unpleasantness that may follow when a government employee decides to break rank and complain either publicly or to supervisors about a situation which s/he believes merits review and reform. That is the price the First Amendment exacts in return for an informed citizenry-”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“in the article and in his testimony. 8 However, the crisis to which Watters referred was one in the EAP, not one resulting from his speaking out. 46 Disruption caused by actions independent of the speech at issue cannot be equated with disruption caused by the speech itself. In Monsanto, reviewing a record similarly lacking evidence of disruption caused by the speech activities of an employee who sent letters critical of the management of the Tax Division of the Virgin Islands Department of Finance, we found it significant that”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]hile there was ample testimony establishing disharmony and discontent among the employees ... there is only meager evidence establishing that this disharmony and discontent was specifically caused by [the] letter writing activities.... [M]uch of the discontent appears to have been the result of the very problems in the Tax Division to which [the] letters were directed.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.