Dodds v. Childers’s Empirical Analysis
933 F.2d 271 · 1991
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently October 2017 · most notably Teague v. City of Flower Mound (1999), Kinsey v. Salado Independent School District (1992)
20 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 Connick v. Myers · Rankin v. McPherson · The Boeing Company v. Daniel C. Shipman · Givhan v. Western Line Consolidated School District · Continental Ore Company v. Union Carbide and Carbon Corporation
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hether an employee's speech addresses a matter of public concern must be determined by the content, form, and context of a given statement, as revealed by the whole court record.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he existence of an element of personal interest on the part of an employee in the speech does not prevent finding that the speech as a whole raises issues of public concern.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Retrospective embellishment cannot transform personal grievances into matters of public concern.”
3 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.