Heideman v. Wirsing’s Empirical Analysis
7 F.3d 659 · 1993
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently December 2010 · most notably McEvoy v. Spencer (1997), Roger Whitmore's Automotive Services, Inc. v. Lake County (2005)
20 federal appellate · 1 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)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1985
Relies on Pickering v. Board of Education of Township High School District 205 Will County Illinois · Connick v. Myers · Elrod v. Burns · Branti v. Finkel · Rankin v. McPherson
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'meaningful input into governmental decisionmaking on issues where there is room for principled disagreement on goals or their implementation.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[b]ecause the individual and governmental interests are essentially unvarying in patronage cases, the focus is less on the expressive activity than on the office occupied by the person engaging in that activity.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“political considerations are an appropriate requirement for the effective performance of the public office involved.”
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.