84 Wash. App. 332 - Wilson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently April 2017 · most notably Smith v. Bates Technical College (2000), Benjamin v. Washington State Bar Ass'n (1999)
30 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 Anderson v. Creighton · Mitchell v. Forsyth · 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
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`Mere suspicion or commonality of interests is insufficient to prove a conspiracy.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“not clearly connected to the provision of quality patient care.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Further, speech that occurs during the discharge of an employee’s duties likely does not touch on matters of public concern. Likewise, speech that offers the speaker’s personal opinions or beliefs does not implicate matters of public concern, especially when it occurs in the work setting. Finally, a speaker who is part of management and is thereby obligated to implement its policies but who, instead, criticizes the policies and refuses to support them, might not be able to call upon the First Amendment for protection. . . . Uncontrolled employee debate about the wisdom of internal office decisions could seriously impact productivity and affect the public institution’s ability to carry out its mission.”
1 later decision 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.