Moonin v. Tice’s Empirical Analysis
868 F.3d 853 · 2017
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 4 district ·
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Anderson v. Creighton · Pickering v. Board of Education of Township High School District 205 Will County Illinois · Pearson v. Callahan · Connick v. Myers · Powell v. McCormack
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the impact of the ban as a whole-both on the employees whose speech may be curtailed and on the public interested in what they might say-against the restricted speech's 'necessary impact on the actual operation' of the Government.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“analytically distinct from claims involving archetypical prior restraints, like government licensing requirements affecting only citizen speech or judicial orders forbidding certain speech by private parties.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“determined by the language of the policy - what an employee reading the policy would think the policy requires - not what [the employer] subjectively intended the [policy] to say”
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.