Langford v. Lane’s Empirical Analysis
921 F.2d 677 · 1991
Citation profile
21 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently April 2018 · most notably Hartsel v. Keys (1996), Mary Elizabeth Leary v. Stephen W. Daeschner, Superintendent of the Jefferson County Board of Education (2000)
21 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. v. Zenith Radio Corporation · New York Times Co. v. Sullivan · 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
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] borderline or marginal candidate ... ought not to be able, by engaging in [protected] conduct, to prevent his employer from assessing his performance record and reaching a decision not to rehire on the basis of that record.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Hadad v. Croucher · Hartsel v. Keys“a reasonable jury could not fail to conclude from the uncontested evidence that [plaintiff] ... would have fired her even if she had not [engaged in the protected conduct].”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Hartsel v. Keys · Hartsel v. Keys“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
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.