O'Connor v. Steeves’s Empirical Analysis
994 F.2d 905 · 1993
Citation profile
85 federal appellate · 377 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 515 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2023 · most notably Waters v. Churchill (1994), Kinney v. Weaver (2004)
85 federal appellate · 377 district · 14 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 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 · Connick v. Myers · Elrod v. Burns
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 515 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“internal working conditions, affecting only the speaker and co-workers,”
24 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“as a citizen upon matters of public concern”
18 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Guilloty Perez v. Pierluisi · Maria-Kelley F. Yniguez Jaime P. Gutierrez, and Arizonans Against Constitutional Tampering, Intervenors-Plaintiffs-Appellees, and State of Arizona Rose Mofford Robert Corbin v. Arizonans for Official English Robert D. Parks, Intervenors-Defendants-Appellants. Maria-Kelley F. Yniguez v. State of Arizona Rose Mofford Robert Corbin, and Arizonans for Official English Robert D. Parks, Intervenors-Defendants-Appellants. Maria-Kelley F. Yniguez v. State of Arizona Rose Mofford Robert Corbin“legitimate interests in preventing unnecessary disruptions and inefficiencies in carrying out its public service mission.”
7 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.