Roe v. Humke’s Empirical Analysis
128 F.3d 1213 · 1997
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 9 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably Griffin v. City of Opa-Locka (2001), Kach v. Hose ex rel. St. Moritz Security Services, Inc. (2009)
21 federal appellate · 9 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 Lugar v. Edmondson Oil Co. · West v. Atkins · Screws v. United States · American Manufacturers Mutual Insurance v. United States · United States v. Classic
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] defendant in a § 1983 suit acts under color of state law when he abuses the position given to him by the State.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“not sufficient to convert the actions [that the officer] took in the pursuit of his private interests into action taken under color of state law.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. S.J., a Minor, by T.R., Her Natural Mother and Next Friend v. Kansas City Missouri Public School District Teresia R. Gilyard, Individually and as Principal of Martin Luther King Middle School in the Kansas City Missouri Public School District William B. Evans, Individually and as Counselor of Martin Luther King Middle School in the Kansas City Missouri Public School District and Gwendolyn E. Squiers, Individually and as Vice-Principal of Martin Luther King Middle School in the Kansas City Missouri Public School District · Sj Tr v. Kansas City Missouri Public School District“involved a defendant who was acting under pretense of his authority and who was purporting to exercise the power given him by the state.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. S.J., a Minor, by T.R., Her Natural Mother and Next Friend v. Kansas City Missouri Public School District Teresia R. Gilyard, Individually and as Principal of Martin Luther King Middle School in the Kansas City Missouri Public School District William B. Evans, Individually and as Counselor of Martin Luther King Middle School in the Kansas City Missouri Public School District and Gwendolyn E. Squiers, Individually and as Vice-Principal of Martin Luther King Middle School in the Kansas City Missouri Public School District · Sj Tr v. Kansas City Missouri Public School District
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.