Gearhart v. Thorne’s Empirical Analysis
768 F.2d 1072 · 1985
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently February 2012 · most notably McGlinchy v. Shell Chemical Co. (1988), Brewster v. Board of Education of the Lynwood Unified School District (1998)
29 federal appellate · 4 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 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Mathews v. Eldridge · Mt. Healthy City School District Board of Education v. Doyle · Parratt v. Taylor · Connick v. Myers
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a public employee's right to speak internally about matters of purely personal interest.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“`matters only of personal interest,' and do not invoke first amendment protection”
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.