Conrad v. Robinson’s Empirical Analysis
871 F.2d 612 · 1989
Citation profile
5 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently June 2015
5 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1441 · 28 U.S.C. § 1443 · 28 U.S.C. § 1447 · 42 U.S.C. § 1971 (Civil Rights Act of 1957) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000A (Civil Rights Act of 1964) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 701 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 703 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 704 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on Georgia v. Rachel · City of Greenwood v. Peacock · Johnson v. Mississippi · Fox v. Eaton Corp. · Jones v. General Tire & Rubber Co.
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“connection between Robinson's speech and this protected activity [the filing of the suit] is very close.... Had Robinson's comments in the Plain Dealer been unrelated to his pre-existing federal court case against [the union], but were just general allegations that Conrad discriminated on the basis of race, the result might be very different.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Davis v. Glanton“[a]ny civil action of which the district courts have original jurisdiction founded on a claim or right arising under the Constitution, treaties or laws of the United States shall be removable without regard to the citizenship or residence of the parties.”
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.