Griffin v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
929 F.2d 1210 · 1991
Citation profile
41 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 140 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably Cobb v. Pozzi (2003), Marshall v. Allen (1993)
41 federal appellate · 1 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 Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. · Pickering v. Board of Education of Township High School District 205 Will County Illinois · Connick v. Myers · National Association for Advancement of Colored People v. State of Alabama Patterson
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 140 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“must view the record and all inferences drawn from it in the light most favorable to the party opposing the motion.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“content, form, and context of a given statement.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“although Connick did not specifically refer to associational rights in drawing the distinction between speech on matters of public concern and matters of private concern, Connick acknowledged that the governing precedent, Pickering, was rooted in cases dealing with speech and associational rights.”
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.