Bart v. Telford’s Empirical Analysis
677 F.2d 622 · 1982
Citation profile
140 federal appellate · 20 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 290 later decisions — most recently October 2024 · most notably Thaddeus-X v. Blatter (1999), Michael Malik Allah v. Thomas Seiverling (2000)
140 federal appellate · 20 district · 7 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 United States Civil Service Commission v. National Ass'n of Letter Carriers · Walsh v. Louisiana High School Athletic Ass'n · Newcomb v. Brennan · Robert T. Magill v. Dennis M. Lynch
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 290 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he effect on freedom of speech may be small, but since there is no justification for harassing people for exercising their constitutional rights it need not be great in order to be actionable.”
34 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[h]olding her up to ridicule for bringing a birthday cake to the office”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“campaign of petty harassments . . . motivated by her [political] views,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Richard Suppan · Bennett v. Hendrix
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.