Bieluch v. Sullivan’s Empirical Analysis
999 F.2d 666 · 1993
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2017 · most notably Mulligan v. Rioux (1994), Schnabel v. Tyler (1994)
7 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 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 · Anderson v. Creighton · New York Times Co. v. Sullivan · Pickering v. Board of Education of Township High School District 205 Will County Illinois · Connick v. Myers
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'posed a potential threat' to police operations”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“speech concerned tax expenditures, town budgets, school construction, and the right to petition for referenda matters of utmost public concern.”
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.