Voigt v. Savell’s Empirical Analysis
70 F.3d 1552 · 1995
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 6 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 82 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2022 · most notably Brewster v. Board of Education of the Lynwood Unified School District (1998), Borough of Duryea v. Guarnieri (2011)
33 federal appellate · 6 district · 5 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 28 U.S.C. § 1367 · 28 U.S.C. § 455 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1985 · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Pickering v. Board of Education of Township High School District 205 Will County Illinois · Cleveland Board of Education v. Loudermill · Connick v. Myers · Pennhurst State School and Hospital v. Halderman · Singleton v. Wulff
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 82 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“can be fairly considered as relating to a matter of political, social, or other concern to the community.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Helen M. Tittel v. Browns Valley Irrigation District, Al Cote, Diana Smith, John Mistler, Robert Borsden and Ted Lamantia, Helen M. Tittel v. Browns Valley Irrigation District, Al Cote, Diana Smith, John Mistler, Robert Borsden and Ted Lamantia, Helen M. Tittel v. Browns Valley Irrigation District, Al Cote, Diana Smith, Robert Borsden, Pat Sperbeck, Neil Scott, and Robert Winchester · Desrochers v. City of San Bernardino“statements regarding criminal misuse of public funds, wastefulness, and inefficiency in managing and operating government entities [are] matters of public concern.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the content, form, and context of a given statement, as revealed by the whole record.”
4 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.