Callaway v. Hafeman’s Empirical Analysis
832 F.2d 414 · 1987
Citation profile
58 federal appellate · 5 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 99 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably Rode v. Dellarciprete (1988), Donahue v. Windsor Locks Board of Fire Commissioners (1987)
58 federal appellate · 5 district · 7 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 Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Pickering v. Board of Education of Township High School District 205 Will County Illinois · Perry v. Sindermann · Connick v. Myers · Bishop v. Wood
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 99 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“look at the point of the speech in question: was it the employee's point to bring wrongdoing to light? Or to raise other issues of public concern, because they are of public concern? Or was the point to further some purely private interest?”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage“[I]t is undoubtedly true that incidences of sexual harassment in a public school district are inherently matters of public concern . . . .”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[The plaintiff's] communications were always made in a context relating to the resolution of her personal dispute with [the harasser]. While the content of [the plaintiff's] communications touched upon a matter of public concern generally, she was not attempting to speak out as a citizen concerned with problems facing the school district; instead, she spoke as an employee attempting to resolve her private dilemma.”
3 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.