Rea v. Matteucci’s Empirical Analysis
121 F.3d 483 · 1997
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently June 2018
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 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 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Logan v. Zimmerman Brush Co. · Bi-Metallic Investment Company v. State Board of Equalization · Atkins v. Parker · Bagdadi v. Nazar · Higginbotham v. City of Baton Rouge
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'the individual citizen from state action that is wholly arbitrary or irrational.' ... Similarly, an individual claiming a defect in the legislative process might have a claim for due process violations.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the person or property of individuals, sometimes to the point of ruin, without giving them a chance to be heard.”
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.