Coleman v. Miller’s Empirical Analysis
117 F.3d 527 · 1997
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently February 2013 · most notably Dixon v. Coburg Dairy, Inc. (2004), Gargiulo Nt v. Gm Sales Inc (1997)
8 federal appellate · 3 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Brown et al. v. Board of Education of Topeka et al. · West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette · Brown v. Board of Education
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“pointed to no government action that requires affirmation of a belief and an attitude of mind”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. C.N., Individually and as Guardian Ad Litem of J.N., a Minor L.M., Individually and as Guardian Ad Litem of V.M., a Minor M.E., Individually and as Guardian Ad Litem of J.E., a Minor v. Ridgewood Board of Education Frederick J. Stokley Joyce Snider Ronald Verdicchio Robert Weakley John Mucciolo Anthony Bencivenga Sheila Brogan · Cn Jn Lm Vm Me Je v. Ridgewood Board of Education“We recognize that the Georgia flag conveys mixed meanings; to some it honors those who fought in the Civil War and to others it flies as a symbol of oppression. But because the Confederate battle flag emblem offends many Georgians, it has, in our view, no place in the official state flag. We regret that the Georgia legislature has chosen, and continues to display, as an official state symbol a battle flag emblem that divides rather than unifies the citizens of Georgia....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“during a regrettable period in Georgia's history when its public leaders were implementing a campaign of massive resistance to the Supreme Court's school desegregation rulings.”
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.