Abraham v. Nagle’s Empirical Analysis
116 F.3d 11 · 1997
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently January 2024
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 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 Whren v. United States · City of Los Angeles v. Lyons · City of Houston v. Hill · Colten v. Commonwealth of Kentucky · Trident Associates Ltd. Partnership v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A person is guilty of disorderly conduct if, with purpose to cause public inconvenience, annoyance or alarm, or recklessly creating a risk thereof, he ... engages in fighting or threatening, or in violent or tumultuous behavior; or ... creates a hazardous or physically offensive condition by any act which serves no legitimate purpose of the actor.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“we take the evidence most favorable to the losing party and ask de novo whether a reasonable jury had inevitably to decide in favor of the victor.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Silva v. Worden“It was not, of course, [permissible] ... to resolve credibility issues on summary judgment.”
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.