997 F. Supp. 2d 1291 - Duke v. Hamil’s Empirical Analysis
2014
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district ·
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly · Ashcroft v. Iqbal · Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Anderson v. Creighton
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“properly ... take action, regardless of whether plaintiff's Union issues constituted a matter of public concern, because she had an [overriding] interest in preventing the speech from impeding the [Police] Department's functions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Plaintiff's intent may not have been to convey an offensive message, but his chosen manner of speech left ample room for interpretation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“choice to place [the post] on a social media platform risked sharing [it] with a much broader audience.”
1 later decision 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.