Donlin v. Watkins’s Empirical Analysis
814 F.2d 273 · 1987
Citation profile
20 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently December 2015 · most notably Faughender v. City of North Olmsted (1991), Burns v. Imc (2003)
20 federal appellate ·
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 Pickering v. Board of Education of Township High School District 205 Will County Illinois · Connick v. Myers · Paul v. Davis · United States v. Calandra · Snowden v. Hughes
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Neither has plaintiff argued that a close working relationship is not essential to the performance of his duties, nor that plaintiff and defendant’s working relationship would not have caused problems among the staff. In short, plaintiff has again made no showing that there were genuinely disputed fact issues precluding the entry of summary judgment. In the absence of showing that the outcome would be any different, we decline to reverse the entry of summary judgment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Carver v. Dennis“Plaintiff was employed at the pleasure of the county prosecutor in a situation naturally giving rise to a close working relationship. In conducting the responsibili ties of this public office while running as opponents in a political campaign for that same office, the public duties would naturally suffer or be subject to constant conflicts of interest.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Carver v. Dennis“When close working relationships are essential to filling public responsibilities, a wide degree of deference to the employer's judgment is appropriate.”
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.