Balogh v. Charron’s Empirical Analysis
855 F.2d 356 · 1988
Citation profile
24 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2015 · most notably Rutan v. Republican Party of Illinois (1990), Faughender v. City of North Olmsted (1991)
24 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 Elrod v. Burns · Branti v. Finkel · Avery v. Jennings · 666 F. Supp. 987 - Balogh v. Charron
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.
“'tolerate action which he reasonably believed would disrupt the office, undermine his authority, and destroy close working relationships' ") (quoting Connick, 461 U.S. at 154, 103 S.Ct. at 1693-94); Balogh v. Charron, 855 F.2d 356 , 356-57 (6th Cir.1988) ("Judicial aides who work in chambers and are assigned to one judge as court officer ... normally handle sensitive information about cases of a confidential nature, information which is not public information. Judges must be able to rely on the confidentiality of the relationship with such aides, just as they must rely on the confidentiality of their relationship with their private secretaries and law clerks.”
4 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.