Mpoy v. Rhee’s Empirical Analysis
758 F.3d 285 · 2014
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 13 district ·
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Ashcroft v. Iqbal · Pickering v. Board of Education of Township High School District 205 Will County Illinois · Connick v. Myers · Garcetti v. Ceballos · Ashcroft v. al-Kidd
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]t is possible that Winder’s broad language, interpreting Garcetti as leaving an employee unprotected when he reports conduct that “interferes with his job responsibilities,” 566 F.3d at 215 , could be in tension with Lane’s holding that an employee’s speech is unprotected only when it is within the scope of the employee’s “ordinary job responsibilities,” 134 S.Ct. at 2379-80 , or “ordinary job duties,” id. at 2378 . In particular, the use of the adjective “ordinary” — which the court repeated nine times — could signal a narrowing of the realm of employee speech left unprotected by Garcetti . Neither Garcetti nor any other previous Supreme Court case had added “ordinary” as a qualifier.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“Here, the speech in question was a single sentence consisting of 2.5 lines in a 160-line email; 16 words out of more than 1300.”). But because no party challenges the accuracy of the interview notes’ representation of Martin’s speech, the Court is bound by the summary judgment record. 73 . In a footnote, the Mpoy court added that Mpoy’s email did not allege a”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Under [the doctrine of qualified immunity], courts may not award damages against a government official in his personal capacity unless ‘the official violated a statutory or constitutional right' and ‘the right was clearly established at the time of the challenged conduct.’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.