Horn v. Kean’s Empirical Analysis
796 F.2d 668 · 1986
Citation profile
42 federal appellate · 4 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2006 · most notably Board of County Commissioners Wabaunsee County Kansas v. Umbehr (1996), O'Hare Truck Service, Inc. v. City of Northlake (1996)
42 federal appellate · 4 district · 4 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
Relies on New York Times Co. v. Sullivan · Pickering v. Board of Education of Township High School District 205 Will County Illinois · Goldberg v. Kelly · Connick v. Myers · Buckley v. Valeo
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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“party affiliation is an appropriate requirement for the effective performance of the public office involved.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“convinced that both Justice Brennan in Elrod and the Court, speaking through Justice Stevens in Branti , understood that the term `public employee' denoted a discrete class of workers with certain common characteristics. We believe that it is beyond doubt that the teachings of these cases did not encompass all individuals who perform compensated work for a governmental entity.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Ambrose v. Knotts · Horn v. Kean“... clear that the free speech mandate is no longer limited to statutes enacted by Congress; it is made obligatory on the states by the fourteenth amendment.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Perez v. Cucci · Horn v. Kean
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.