Sykes v. McDowell’s Empirical Analysis
786 F.2d 1098 · 1986
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently March 2017 · most notably Davis v. Heckler (1989), Hatcher v. Board of Public Education & Orphanage (1987)
22 federal appellate · 2 district · 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 28 U.S.C. § 1738
Relies on Connick v. Myers · Allen v. McCurry · Kremer v. Chemical Construction Corp. · Wooley v. Maynard · Barrett v. United States
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... [T]he four elements of res judicata [in Alabama] are: (1) prior judgment rendered by court of competent jurisdiction; (2) prior judgment rendered on the merits; (3) parties to both suits substantially identical; and (4) same cause of action present in both suits.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a] public employee who positively asserts the right not to speak when ordered to support his employer is within the protection of the first amendment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Nicholson v. Gant“whether evidence supports the factual findings of a personnel review board and whether the board has made errors 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.