Robert Livas v. Edward Petka

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that a subordinate attorney could be relied on by superiors to make decisions that could create policy
• prosecutor was entitled to demand loyalty of assistants and could dismiss any assis tant in whom he had lost confidence “for whatever reasons”
• decided shortly after and without reference to Connick and holding that assistant prosecutors are policymaking officials not protected by the first amendment
• assistant prosecutors implement prosecutor's policies and make decisions which create policy

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Rutan v. Republican Party of Illinois
  Supreme Court· 1990-08-30· cited 1,236×
• Jenkins v. Medford
  Fourth Circuit· 1997-08-07· cited 289×
• Arnaldo Jimenez Fuentes v. Honorable Jaime Torres Gaztambide
  First Circuit· 1986-09-24· cited 241×
• Donald C. Tomczak v. The City of Chicago, an Illinois Municipal Corporation
  Seventh Circuit· 1985-06-17· cited 203×
• Lohorn v. Michal
  Seventh Circuit· 1990-08-30· cited 171×
• Luisa A. De Abadia v. Hon. Luis Izquierdo Mora
  First Circuit· 1986-06-27· cited 147×
• Stott v. Haworth
  Fourth Circuit· 1990-10-04· cited 136×
• Steven A. Kurowski and David H. Nicholls v. James J. Krajewski, Individually and in His Capacity as Judge of the Lake County Court, Division III
  Seventh Circuit· 1988-06-02· cited 128×
• Upton v. Thompson
  Seventh Circuit· 1991-04-22· cited 127×
• Carol D. Patkus v. Sangamon-Cass Consortium, Sangamon County, Cass County, and Richard Austin, Individually and in His Official Capacity
  Seventh Circuit· 1985-08-07· cited 125×
• Hall v. Tollett
  Sixth Circuit· 1997-10-22· cited 125×
• Esly B. Williams v. City of River Rouge, Daniel Cooney, Michael Bowdler, Danny Stevens, and Charles Prather
  Sixth Circuit· 1990-07-16· cited 110×
• William Fazio v. City and County of San Francisco Arlo Smith
  Ninth Circuit· 1997-10-07· cited 103×
• Roy Wilbur v. Charles L. Mahan
  Seventh Circuit· 1993-08-23· cited 95×
• Soderbeck v. Burnett County
  Seventh Circuit· 1985-01-04· cited 93×
• Mary Patrick Latham v. The Office of the Attorney General of the State of Ohio
  Sixth Circuit· 2005-01-10· cited 86×
• Meeks v. Grimes
  Seventh Circuit· 1985-12-19· cited 81×
• Robin Joy Shahar v. Michael J. Bowers, Individually and in His Official Capacity as Attorney General of the State of Georgia
  Eleventh Circuit· 1997-05-30· cited 73×
• Luis O. Juarbe-Angueira v. Luis Rafael Arias, Director of the Public Building Authority
  First Circuit· 1987-09-29· cited 70×
• S. Martin Gordon Eric Ole Thorsen and Joel J. Flick v. County of Rockland, the County of Rockland, C. Scott Vanderhoef Paul v. Nowicki
  Second Circuit· 1997-03-27· cited 67×

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• 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×
• Elrod v. Burns
  Supreme Court· 1976-06-28· cited 4,553×
• Branti v. Finkel
  Supreme Court· 1980-03-31· cited 1,881×
• Board of School Comm'rs of Indianapolis v. Jacobs
  Supreme Court· 1975-02-18· cited 368×
• Ferri v. Ackerman
  Supreme Court· 1979-12-04· cited 269×
• James Newcomb v. James Brennan and Henry Reuss
  Seventh Circuit· 1977-07-11· cited 143×
• Cecil Wren, Plaintiffs-Appellees-Cross-Appellants v. Nolan Jones, Defendants-Appellants-Cross-Appellees
  Seventh Circuit· 1981-03-12· cited 23×