Kregger v. Posner’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently February 1988 · most notably Stafford v. Muster (1979), Darrell R. Page v. Charles R. Sharpe (1973)
10 federal appellate · 3 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 28 U.S.C. § 1343 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Monroe v. Pape · United States v. Classic · Simpson v. United States · Skibs A/S Jolund v. American Smelting & Refining Co. · Chandler v. Occidental Petroleum 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““An attorney’s status as an ‘officer of the court’ does not make him an officer of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania or of any governmental subdivision thereof. He is just another private individual for purposes of §§ 1983 and 1985. * * *””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Every person who, under color of any statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage, of any State * * * 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.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“In an action for damages under the Civil Rights Act, the plaintiff must allege highly specific facts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Martin v. Johnson
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.