Golodner v. Berliner

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that the government may not “terminate their relationships with independent contractors because of the contractors’ speech.”
• stating that “exposure of official misconduct . . . is generally of great consequence to the public”
• conducting a clearly established law analysis despite neither party addressing the analysis “in any helpful way”
• “Few issues related to qualified immunity have caused more ink to be spilled than whether a particular right has been clearly established.”
• “Based on the relevant case law at the time of the individual defendants’ alleged retaliatory actions, we have no trouble concluding that the constitutional right implicated here was clearly established.”
• “We may address these questions in either .order ____”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

21 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Montero v. City of N.Y.
  Second Circuit· 2018-05-16· cited 208×
• Dixon v. Von Blanckensee
  Second Circuit· 2021-04-12· cited 125×
• McKinney v. City of Middletown
  Second Circuit· 2022-09-26· cited 123×
• Francis v. Fiacco
  Second Circuit· 2019-11-12· cited 98×
• Hurd v. Fredenburgh
  Second Circuit· 2021-01-12· cited 70×
• Laface v. E. Suffolk Boces
  E.D. New York· 2018-11-15· cited 65×
• Specht v. City of New York
  Second Circuit· 2021-10-06· cited 60×
• Ricciuti v. Gyzenis
  Second Circuit· 2016-08-24· cited 49×
• Shara v. Maine-Endwell Cent. Sch. Dist.
  Second Circuit· 2022-08-18· cited 45×
• Raymond v. City of N.Y.
  S.D. Illinois· 2018-06-27· cited 39×
• Novick v. Vill. of Wappingers Falls
  S.D. Illinois· 2019-03-27· cited 31×
• Amy Colvin v. Hubert Keen
  Second Circuit· 2018-08-15· cited 27×
• Schoolcraft v. City of New York
  S.D. New York· 2015-09-18· cited 23×
• Manon v. Pons
  S.D. New York· 2015-09-18· cited 17×
• Baca v. Cosper
  Tenth Circuit· 2025-02-24· cited 12×
• Masciotta v. Clarkstown Central School District
  S.D. New York· 2015-09-30· cited 10×
• Lefebvre v. Morgan
  S.D. New York· 2017-02-10· cited 6×
• Montero v. City of Yonkers
  Second Circuit· 2018-05-16
• Billie Thompson v. Lance Cope
  Seventh Circuit· 2018-08-14
• Spring v. County of Monroe
  W.D. New York· 2014-11-13

Cites

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

• Pearson v. Callahan
  Supreme Court· 2009-01-21· cited 13,928×
• Anderson v. Creighton
  Supreme Court· 1987-06-25· cited 12,768×
• Mitchell v. Forsyth
  Supreme Court· 1985-06-19· cited 8,858×
• Connick Ex Rel. Parish of Orleans v. Myers
  Supreme Court· 1983-04-20· cited 5,562×
• Garcetti v. Ceballos
  Supreme Court· 2006-05-30· cited 2,871×
• Johnson v. Jones
  Supreme Court· 1995-06-12· cited 2,857×
• Davis v. Scherer
  Supreme Court· 1984-08-16· cited 2,605×
• Ashcroft v. al-Kidd
  Supreme Court· 2011-05-31· cited 1,740×
• Ruotolo v. City of New York
  Second Circuit· 2008-02-06· cited 1,344×
• Elder v. Holloway
  Supreme Court· 1994-02-23· cited 787×
• Board of Comm'rs, Wabaunsee Cty. v. Umbehr
  Supreme Court· 1996-06-28· cited 752×
• Lane v. Franks
  Supreme Court· 2014-06-19· cited 358×
• O'Hare Truck Service, Inc. v. City of Northlake
  Supreme Court· 1996-06-28· cited 352×
• Jackler v. Byrne
  Second Circuit· 2011-07-22· cited 290×
• J. Blaine Lewis v. Bruce D. Cowen, Roland H. Lange, and William v. Hickey, Individually
  Second Circuit· 1999-01-15· cited 277×
• White Plains Towing Corp. v. Patterson
  Second Circuit· 1993-04-21· cited 210×
• Nagle v. Marron
  Second Circuit· 2011-12-12· cited 181×
• Zalaski v. City of Hartford
  Second Circuit· 2013-07-23· cited 174×
• Alejandro Luna, Plaintiff-Appellee-Cross-Appellant v. Jose Pico and Allen Cave, Defendants-Appellants-Cross-Appellees
  Second Circuit· 2004-01-30· cited 169×
• Demoret v. Zegarelli
  Second Circuit· 2006-06-08· cited 162×