Kurtz v. Squires’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
9 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Koon v. United States · Arneson v. Arneson · State v. Guthrie · Moore v. Kluthe & Lane Ins. Agency, Inc. · Williams v. Union Carbide Corp.
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We afford broad diseretion to circuit courts in deciding whether to admit or exclude evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.