Yoggerst v. Hedges’s Empirical Analysis
739 F.2d 293 · 1984
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently April 2006 · most notably Munson v. Friske (1985), Wright v. Illinois Department of Children & Family Services (1994)
31 federal appellate · 3 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
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · 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 · Givhan v. Western Line Consolidated School District
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.
“It is clear from the content of Yoggerst’s statement that she was speaking in her role as an employee about her personal feelings and not in her role as a citizen on a matter of public concern.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“an ineffective administrator, that he failed to discharge his duties, or that he had committed some wrongdoing or a breach of the public trust”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Glass v. Dachel
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.