Monks v. Marlinga’s Empirical Analysis
923 F.2d 423 · 1991
Citation profile
45 federal appellate · 5 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably Cobb v. Pozzi (2003), Faughender v. City of North Olmsted (1991)
45 federal appellate · 5 district · 1 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
Relies on Connick v. Myers · Elrod v. Burns · Carnegie-Mellon University v. Cohill · Branti v. Finkel · Rutan v. Republican Party of Illinois
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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Because Michigan law statutorily imposes the inherent policy-making responsibilities of the prosecutor on the assistant prosecutor, we hold that the job of assistant prosecutor is a policy-making position.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Shahar v. Bowers · McCloud v. Testa“in contrast to the broader public responsibilities of an official such as a prosecutor.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“We perceive no logical reason for differentiating between speech and association in applying Connick to first amendment claims.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cobb v. Pozzi
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.