Thomas v. City of New York’s Empirical Analysis
143 F.3d 31 · 1998
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 5 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 102 later decisions — most recently September 2020 · most notably Central States Southeast and Southwest Areas Health and Welfare Fund v. Merck-Medco Managed Care Llc (2005), 322 F. Supp. 2d 319 - In Re Global Crossing, Ltd. Securities Litigation (2004)
15 federal appellate · 5 district · 1 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 Abbott Laboratories v. Gardner · Village of Arlington Heights v. Metropolitan Housing Development Corp. · Califano v. Sanders · Thomas v. Union Carbide Agricultural Products Co. · Toilet Goods Association v. Wga Rdner
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 102 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he court can raise [ripeness] sua sponte, and, indeed, can do so for the first time on appeal.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“faced with a choice between risking likely criminal prosecution entailing serious consequences, or forgoing potentially lawful behavior.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“judicial interference until a[ ] ... decision has been formalized and its effects felt in a concrete way by the challenging parties.”
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.