Thomas v. Harris County’s Empirical Analysis
784 F.2d 648 · 1986
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently October 2003 · most notably Jett v. Dallas Independent School District (1986), Brawner v. City of Richardson (1988)
13 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Mt. Healthy City School District Board of Education v. Doyle · Perry v. Sindermann · Connick v. Myers · First Nat. Bank of Ariz. v. Cities Service Co. · Imbler v. Pachtman
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Plaintiff police officer's] criticism of what he perceived to be special treatment afforded the River Oaks subdivision (and its private security force) addressed matters of public rather than purely private concern[ ]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the district court must determine whether Thomas' participation in protected first amendment activity prompted his superiors to retaliate against him....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“there is no issue of material fact, and the moving party is entitled to a judgment as a matter of law.”
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.