Sheppard v. Beerman’s Empirical Analysis
94 F.3d 823 · 1996
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 12 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 99 later decisions — most recently March 2016 · most notably Mandell v. County of Suffolk (2003), Lynn Gorman-Bakos v. Cornell Cooperative
34 federal appellate · 12 district ·
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 Anderson v. Creighton · Connick v. Myers · Rankin v. McPherson · Adarand Constructors, Inc. v. Pena · Waters v. Churchill
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 99 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he employer's actual (subjective) motive is not irrelevant in a qualified immunity inquiry”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“appears beyond doubt that the plaintiff can prove no set of facts in support of his claim which would entitle him to relief.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is clear . . . that a government official may, in certain circumstances, fire an employee for speaking— even on a matter of public concern—where that speech has the potential to disrupt the work environment.”
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.