Deremo v. Watkins’s Empirical Analysis

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10 federal appellate · 1 district ·

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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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Connick, 103 S.Ct. at 1690 . In applying the”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Cottrell v. Chickasaw City Sch. Bd. of Educ. · 62 F. Supp. 2d 1259 - Bevill v. UAB Walker College

2. “... All three letters mentioned the sexual harassment of appellants by Don Peroddy. Deremo’s letter expressed her disappointment regarding her lack of promotion to Peroddy’s former position, and the letters by Fox and Mills referred to their compliance with Watkins’ request that appellants remain silent about the Peroddy situation. The action requested by the letters was in the form of individual compensation to each respective signatory. We assume that an employee’s complaint to a superior reporting the wrongful conduct of a public official, including sexual harassment, would ordinarily be a matter of public concern. We also assume that the public concern aspect would not ordinarily be negated by the fact that the employee seeks compensation in addition to elimination of the ■wrongful conduct. In this case, however, appellants wrote the letters seeking compensation approximately six months after Watkins had eliminated the atmosphere of sexual harassment. Peroddy had resigned six months before the letters were written, and the record reflects that the atmosphere in the office thereafter had been completely free of that problem. The context in the instant case suggests that the claims for compensation were purely personal and unrelated to any purpose to serve the public goal of insuring that public offices are free of sexual harassment. Not only were the letters seeking compensation written six months after the problem in the office had been completely resolved, but the immedi”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 62 F. Supp. 2d 1259 - Bevill v. UAB Walker College

3. “Kurtz, 855 F.2d at 730 . We found, as an initial matter, that Kurtz's speech revealed Kurtz's concern about his own salary 5 and the personal animosity between Kurtz and Vickrey, see id. at 728 , and we determined that issues of personality conflict and salary level are not matters of public concern. Id. at 729 . 6 However, Kurtz's speech also concerned topics relating to the management of the university, such as the misuse of public dollars allocated for education. Kurtz, 855 F.2d at 729-30 . Because”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Deremo v. Watkins