Elliott v. City of Union City’s Empirical Analysis
25 F.3d 800 · 1994
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 3 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably Jones v. Blanas (2004), Trimble v. City of Santa Rosa (1995)
21 federal appellate · 3 district · 3 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 Wilson v. Garcia · Boatmen's National Bank of St. Louis v. Carver · Air Line Pilots Ass'n v. Landry · Hardin v. Straub · Usher v. City of Los Angeles
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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a would-be plaintiff is 'imprisoned on a criminal charge' within the meaning of section 352.1 if he or she is serving a term of imprisonment in the state prison.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he claim accrues when the plaintiff 'knows or has reason to know of the injury which is the basis of his action.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“continuous custody is the relevant disability.”
3 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.