Jones v. Dodson’s Empirical Analysis
727 F.2d 1329 · 1984
Citation profile
71 federal appellate · 8 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 145 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2013 · most notably Rutan v. Republican Party of Illinois (1990), Arnaldo Jimenez Fuentes v. Honorable Jaime Torres Gaztambide (1986)
71 federal appellate · 8 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Mt. Healthy City School District Board of Education v. Doyle · Pickering v. Board of Education of Township High School District 205 Will County Illinois · Connick v. Myers · Elrod v. Burns · Branti v. Finkel
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 145 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where the protected activity involves overt 'expression of ideas,' the more open-ended inquiry prescribed by Pickering and its progeny are required to accomplish the necessary balancing.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“the degree of 'public concern' " against "the degree to which the employee's conduct is justifiably viewed by the public employer as an actual or threatened disruption of the conduct of government operations”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the sole question [is] whether the unrelated motive was an independently effective one.”
3 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.