Marohnic v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
800 F.2d 613 · 1986
Citation profile
42 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 77 later decisions — most recently May 2022 · most notably Conaway v. Smith (1988), Davis v. Heckler (1989)
42 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 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))
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 · Stevens v. Marks · Ross v. Communications Satellite Corp.
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 77 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[p]ublic interest is near its zenith when ensuring that public organizations are being operated in accordance with the law.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]hen an employee exposes unscrupulous behavior in the workplace, his interests are co-extensive with those of his employer; both want the organization to function in a proper manner”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“so intimate or of such an interpersonal nature that Marohnic's cooperation ... rendered him ineffective....”
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.