Warnock v. Pecos County, Texas

How courts have described this case

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

• finding that a public employee’s personal concern for “working conditions, job security, and the like” are not matters of public concern

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

15 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Shipp v. McMahon
  Fifth Circuit· 2000-01-31· cited 133×
• Branton v. City of Dallas
  Fifth Circuit· 2001-11-09· cited 126×
• Kiser v. Johnson
  Fifth Circuit· 1999-01-06· cited 123×
• Kennedy v. Tangipahoa Parish Library Board of Control
  Fifth Circuit· 2000-08-21· cited 115×
• Wallace v. County of Comal
  Fifth Circuit· 2005-02-14· cited 83×
• Shipp v. McMahon
  Fifth Circuit· 2000-01-07· cited 41×
• Norvis Harmon v. Dallas County, Texas
  Fifth Circuit· 2019-06-21· cited 39×
• Harris v. Victoria Independent School District
  Fifth Circuit· 1999-03-12· cited 15×
• Warnock v. Pecos County
  Fifth Circuit· 1997-07-03· cited 8×
• Fernez v. Calabrese
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2000-07-07· cited 6×
• Lewis v. Guerrero
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 1998-11-05· cited 5×
• Wetherbe v. Texas Tech University
  Fifth Circuit· 2025-05-20· cited 3×
• Bylsma v. Bailey
  M.D. Alabama· 2001-01-22· cited 1×
• Harris v. Victoria Independent School District
  Fifth Circuit· 1999-07-06
• Norvis Harmon v. Dallas County, Texas
  Fifth Circuit· 2019-07-09

Cites

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

• Harlow v. Fitzgerald
  Supreme Court· 1982-06-24· cited 22,846×
• Anderson v. Creighton
  Supreme Court· 1987-06-25· cited 12,768×
• 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×
• Elrod v. Burns
  Supreme Court· 1976-06-28· cited 4,553×
• Siegert v. Gilley
  Supreme Court· 1991-05-23· cited 2,725×
• Branti v. Finkel
  Supreme Court· 1980-03-31· cited 1,881×
• Wallace v. Texas Tech Univ.
  Fifth Circuit· 1996-04-09· cited 666×
• Joseph M. Schultea, Sr. v. David Robert Wood, David Robert Wood, Homer Ford, W.F. \Slim\ Plagens and Warren K. Driver
  Fifth Circuit· 1995-03-09· cited 471×
• James Elliott and Joseph Defley v. Leander H. Perez, Jr., Etc., Eugene E. Leon, Jr., Etc., and Frank Klein
  Fifth Circuit· 1985-02-07· cited 332×
• James Clark v. Amoco Production Co., Etc.
  Fifth Circuit· 1986-07-18· cited 321×
• Barbara Conner v. Rudy G. Reinhard
  Seventh Circuit· 1988-05-19· cited 220×
• Warnock v. Pecos County Texas
  Fifth Circuit· 1996-07-09· cited 178×
• Gary Terrell v. University of Texas System Police
  Fifth Circuit· 1986-06-30· cited 172×
• Cantu v. Rocha
  Fifth Circuit· 1996-02-28· cited 165×
• Click v. Copeland
  Fifth Circuit· 1992-08-27· cited 151×
• Harvey A. Thompson v. City of Starkville, Mississippi, David Lindley, Larry Sisk, and Jimmy Raines, Individually and in Their Official Capacities
  Fifth Circuit· 1990-05-03· cited 148×
• Jimmie McBee v. Jim Hogg County, Texas and Gilbert Ybanez, Javier Alfonso Hinojosa v. Jim Hogg County, Texas
  Fifth Circuit· 1984-04-30· cited 130×
• Headley v. Bacon
  Eighth Circuit· 1987-09-09· cited 122×