Scott v. Flowers’s Empirical Analysis
910 F.2d 201 · 1990
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 2 district · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 81 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2022 · most notably Thaddeus-X v. Blatter (1999), Narey v. Dean (1994)
22 federal appellate · 2 district · 33 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on 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 · District of Columbia Court of Appeals v. Feldman · Paul v. Davis
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 81 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Accordingly, the Commission must carry a very difficult burden in order to demonstrate that its concededly legitimate interest in protecting the efficiency and impartiality of the state judicial system outweighs Scott's first amendment rights.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“interest of the State, as an employer, in promoting the efficiency of the public services it performs through its employees.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“no appeal from [such] reprimands was available”
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.