Beauregard v. Wingard’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 6 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently January 1986 · most notably Dombrowski v. Pfister (1965), Whirl v. Kern (1968)
16 federal appellate · 6 district · 9 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 18 U.S.C. § 242 · 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 28 U.S.C. § 1343 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Gideon v. Wainwright · Mapp v. Ohio · Monroe v. Pape · Rochin v. People of California · Brown v. Allen
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Every person who, under color of any statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage of any State or Territory, subjects, or causes to be subjected, any citizen of the United States or other person within the jurisdiction thereof to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured by the Constitution and laws, shall be liable to the party injured in an action at law, suit in equity, or other proper proceeding for redress.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““There is no question that an arrest by State officers without warrant, without probable cause, not with a purpose of enforcing the law, but with an ulterior motive, is an arrest without due process. Imprisonment by said officers pursuant to such arrest is likewise without due process. When acting under ‘color of law’ in accomplishing the deprivations above stated, the officers have accomplished a violation of Section 42 U.S.C.A. § 1983 .” p. 185.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Tyree v. Smith“In determining what constitutes lack of ‘due process’ we think that ‘motive’ should and does bear heavily in cases under Section 1983, 42 U.S.C.A. where police officers are involved, though specific intent to deprive a person of a specific constitutional right need not be present.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lykken v. Vavreck
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.