Downie v. Powers’s Empirical Analysis
193 F.2d 760 · 1951
Citation profile
78 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 87 later decisions — most recently August 1991 · most notably United States v. Mayes (1975), Glasson v. City of Louisville (1975)
78 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1343
Relies on Shelley v. Kraemer · United States v. Classic · Quercia v. United States · Collins v. Hardyman · Nudd v. Burrows
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 87 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“One charged with the duty of keeping the peace cannot be an innocent bystander where the constitutionally pro- ‘ tected rights of persons are being invaded. He must stand on the side of law and order or be counted among the mob. [Citations omitted]. But the officials are the keepers, not the insurers of the peace in the community. Diligent and conscientious effort is all that is required. Otherwise, officers would be civilly and criminally liable under Federal law for every breach of a constitutionally protected right of a citizen — a result which the framers of the Civil Rights Act never intended.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“One charged with the duty of keeping the peace [under state law] cannot be an innocent bystander where the constitutionally protected rights of persons are being invaded. He must stand on the side of law and order or be counted among the mob.... But the officials are the keepers, not the insurers of the peace in the community. Diligent and conscientious effort is all that is required.... When all the evidence bearing upon the action or inaction of the city officials is considered in its totality we think it presented a factual issue.... (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jensen v. Conrad“determine whether there was reversible error in excluding the [testimony].”
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.