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985 F.2d 1362 · 1993

Citation profile

91
cited by 91 later decisions
3
states following
February 2011
most recently cited

37 federal appellate · 6 district · 5 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 91 later decisions — most recently February 2011 · most notably Maniccia v. Brown (1999), Hughes v. Bedsole (1995)

37 federal appellate · 6 district · 5 state decisions

580199320002010decided

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. · Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Mt. Healthy City School District Board of Education v. Doyle · Pickering v. Board of Education of Township High School District 205 Will County Illinois · Missouri v. Continential Insurance Cos.

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

  1. “Allegedly protected speech cannot be proven to motivate retaliation, if there is no evidence that the defendants knew of the protected speech.”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Sheker v. Grimes · 377 F. Supp. 2d 994 - Trujillo v. BD. OF EDUC. OF ALBUQUERQUE PUB. SCH.
  2. “'the mere fact that protected speech precedes an employment decision does not create the inference that the speech motivated the employment decision.'”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Roberts v. Broski · Barnard v. Jackson County
  3. “[T]he fact that protected speech may precede an adverse employment decision alone does not establish causation under Mt. Healthy.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Cromley v. Board of Education · Beattie v. Madison County School District

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.