Sopp v. Gehrlein’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently September 1998
6 federal appellate · 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 Wheeldin v. Wheeler · Martucci v. Mayer · National Refining Co. v. Wagner · 224 F. Supp. 22 - Johnson v. Crumlish · Sopp v. Gehrlein
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“That case is authority for the conclusion that on the fact of the complaint no federal cause of action can be made out against (the federal agents).”
2 later decisions 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.