Gonzalez v. Cy Benavides’s Empirical Analysis
774 F.2d 1295 · 1985
Citation profile
38 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently December 2015 · most notably Johnston v. Harris County Flood Control District (1989), Hall v. Ford (1988)
38 federal appellate · 1 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 2790
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that a stronger showing [of disruption] may be necessary if the employee's speech more substantially involved matters of public concern.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“exclude the possibility that an issue of private concern to the employee may also be an issue of public concern.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“may not require an employee 'to surrender First Amendment rights as a condition of employment'; however, an employee is not always free to speak as a private citizen.”
2 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.