Christopher James Mylett v. David M. Mullican

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• basing the application of absolute immunity in part upon the independence of civil service commissioners from political influence
• noting plaintiff must show engaged in protected speech or association to support a First Amendment claim

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

18 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Churchill v. University of Colorado at Boulder
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 2012-09-10· cited 211×
• Turner v. Houma Municipal Fire & Police Civil Service Board
  Fifth Circuit· 2000-10-18· cited 150×
• O'Neal v. Mississippi Board of Nursing
  Fifth Circuit· 1997-05-29· cited 47×
• Lindsey v. Fireman's & Policeman's Civil Service Commission of City of Houston
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 1998-10-22· cited 21×
• Harris v. Victoria Independent School District
  Fifth Circuit· 1999-03-12· cited 15×
• Iving Thomas Barbara Thomas v. City of Dallas, Darwin Gaines Aquilla Allen
  Fifth Circuit· 1999-05-11· cited 15×
• Taylor v. Brentwood Union Free School District
  E.D. New York· 1995-12-02· cited 13×
• Brossette v. City of Baton Rouge
  M.D. Louisiana· 1993-10-14· cited 10×
• Durousseau v. LA STATE RACING COM'N
  Louisiana Court of Appeal· 1998-12-09· cited 7×
• Horton v. Marovich
  N.D. Illinois· 1996-01-19· cited 7×
• Swann v. City of Dallas
  N.D. Texas· 1996-02-12· cited 5×
• Jefferson v. City of Hazlehurst
  S.D. Mississippi· 1995-12-29· cited 4×
• Lewis v. Drouillard
  E.D. Michigan· 2010-03-22· cited 1×
• Thomas v. City of Dallas
  Fifth Circuit· 1999-06-07
• Mylett v. Mullican
  Supreme Court· 1993-10-18
• Harris v. Victoria Independent School District
  Fifth Circuit· 1999-07-06
• Unnamed case
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2013-07-11
• Swetlik v. Crawford
  E.D. Wisconsin· 2012-06-27

Cites

42 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Mitchell v. Forsyth
  Supreme Court· 1985-06-19· cited 8,858×
• Mt. Healthy City School District Board of Education v. Doyle
  Supreme Court· 1977-01-11· cited 7,445×
• Pickering v. Board of Ed. of Township High School Dist. 205, Will Cty.
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-03· cited 6,021×
• Connick Ex Rel. Parish of Orleans v. Myers
  Supreme Court· 1983-04-20· cited 5,562×
• Stump v. Sparkman
  Supreme Court· 1978-06-05· cited 5,547×
• Pierson v. Ray
  Supreme Court· 1967-04-11· cited 4,282×
• Carey v. Piphus
  Supreme Court· 1978-03-21· cited 3,438×
• Butz v. Economou
  Supreme Court· 1978-06-29· cited 3,397×
• Mistretta v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1989-01-18· cited 2,457×
• Forrester v. White
  Supreme Court· 1988-01-12· cited 2,252×
• Wood v. Strickland
  Supreme Court· 1975-04-14· cited 2,195×
• Mullis v. United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Nevada
  Ninth Circuit· 1987-09-24· cited 2,181×
• Cleavinger v. Saxner
  Supreme Court· 1985-12-10· cited 1,070×
• Commodity Futures Trading Commission v. Schor
  Supreme Court· 1986-07-07· cited 991×
• Wyatt v. Cole
  Supreme Court· 1992-05-18· cited 921×
• Prentis v. Atlantic Coast Line Co.
  Supreme Court· 1908-11-30· cited 623×
• Frohwerk v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1919-03-10· cited 301×
• Firemen's & Policemen's Civil Service Commission v. Brinkmeyer
  Texas Supreme Court· 1984-01-04· cited 273×
• Maureen E. Coughlin and Frank S. Mistretta v. Harry Lee A/K/A Jefferson Parish Sheriff
  Fifth Circuit· 1991-11-12· cited 182×
• Curtis W. Caine, Jr., M.D. v. M.D. Hardy, M.D.
  Fifth Circuit· 1991-09-26· cited 131×