Bryson v. City of Waycross’s Empirical Analysis
888 F.2d 1562 · 1989
Citation profile
86 federal appellate · 3 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 196 later decisions — most recently July 2025 · most notably Angie Chesser v. Amos Sparks (2001), Mize v. Jefferson City Board of Education (1996)
86 federal appellate · 3 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Foman v. Davis · 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 · Pembaur v. City of Cincinnati
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 196 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“fairly characterized as constituting speech on a matter of public concern.”
17 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“State's interest as an employer in regulating the speech of its employees differ[s] significantly from those it possesses in connection with regulation of the speech of the citizenry in general.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) whether the speech at issue impedes the government's ability to perform its duties efficiently, (2) the manner, time and place of the speech, and (3) the context within which the speech was made.”
5 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.