Joyner v. Lancaster’s Empirical Analysis
815 F.2d 20 · 1987
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2017 · most notably Rutan v. Republican Party of Illinois (1990), Moore v. City of Wynnewood (1995)
29 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
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 · Givhan v. Western Line Consolidated School District · Marino 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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“whether the employee's interest in the speech was outweighed by the employer's 'interest in the effective and efficient fulfillment of its responsibilities.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“'involved questions of constitutional law for the court'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“pervasive distrust and plummeting morale”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.