Daniels v. Quinn’s Empirical Analysis
801 F.2d 687 · 1986
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably Conaway v. Smith (1988), Huang v. Board of Governors (1990)
22 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
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 · Jurgensen v. Fairfax County · Jones v. Dodson
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he federal court is not the appropriate forum in which to review the multitude of personnel decisions that are made daily by public agencies...”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[q]uestions of this sort do not belong in federal court”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[W]hether the degree of public interest in the employee's statement was... outweighed by the employer's responsibility to manage its internal affairs and provide `effective and efficient' service to the public.”
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.