Matherne v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
851 F.2d 752 · 1988
Citation profile
58 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 92 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably Doe v. Taylor Independent School District (1994), Kinney v. Weaver (2004)
58 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 Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Anderson v. Creighton · Mitchell v. Forsyth · 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 92 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“even when [the court] view[ed] the facts in the light most favorable to the sheriffs in their official capacities, [the plaintiff's] activities were protected under the first amendment, and [the sheriff] was not justified in firing [the plaintiff] for those activities”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'[T]he question is not whether the law was settled, viewed abstractly, but whether, measured by an objective standard, a reasonable [official] would know that his action was illegal.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“imposed upon him the professional duties of a peace officer, not the politically sensitive requirements of a confidential aide to a politically elected official”
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.