Montgomery v. Boshears’s Empirical Analysis
698 F.2d 739 · 1983
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently July 2007
13 federal appellate · 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Mt. Healthy City School District Board of Education v. Doyle · Perry v. Sindermann · Bishop v. Wood · Environmental Defense Fund v. Marsh
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]e cannot say that summary judgment is never appropriate for these employee speech claims where the defendant so clearly had compelling independent reasons for not continuing employment.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Robinson's living arrangement was not a 'substantial' or 'motivating' factor in the decision not to rehire.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Robinson v. Boyer
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.