Schalk v. Gallemore’s Empirical Analysis
906 F.2d 491 · 1990
Citation profile
79 federal appellate · 36 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 145 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably Hicks v. City of Watonga (1991), Van Deelen v. Johnson (2007)
79 federal appellate · 36 district · 7 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 Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Anderson v. Creighton · New York Times Co. v. Sullivan
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 145 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in promoting the efficiency of the public services it performs through its employees.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“be fairly considered as relating to any matter of political, social, or other concern to the community.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“actual disruption of services which results from the employee[s'] speech.”
6 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.