Renfroe v. Kirkpatrick’s Empirical Analysis
722 F.2d 714 · 1984
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 6 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently April 2011 · most notably Thaddeus-X v. Blatter (1999), Gray v. Lacke (1989)
31 federal appellate · 6 district · 2 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 Connick v. Myers · Renfroe v. Kirkpatrick
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“content, form, and context of a given statement, as revealed by the whole record.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“when a public employee speaks not as a citizen upon matters of public concern, but instead as an employee upon matters only of personal interest, absent the most unusual circumstances, a federal court is not the appropriate forum in which to review the wisdom of a personnel decision taken by a public agency allegedly in .reaction to the employee’s behavior.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[P]laintiff's grievance is protected under the First Amendment only if it related to a matter of public concern.”
1 later decision 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.