Gibson v. Kilpatrick’s Empirical Analysis
734 F.3d 395 · 2013
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Pickering v. Board of Education of Township High School District 205 Will County Illinois · Pearson v. Callahan · Connick v. Myers · Burlington Northern & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. White · Johnson v. Jones
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]his court has not yet decided whether the Burlington standard for adverse employment actions also applies to First Amendment retaliation cases.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Formal job descriptions often bear little resemblance to the duties an employee actually is expected to perform, and the listing of a given task in an employee’s written job description is neither necessary nor sufficient to demonstrate that conducting the task is within the scope of the employee’s professional duties for First Amendment purposes.”
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.