Edwards v. Sard’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently February 2014
7 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 Brown et al. v. Board of Education of Topeka et al. · Brown v. Board of Education · Watson v. City of Memphis · Theodore X. A. Sewell v. Paul F. Pegelow, Etc., Joseph X. Watson v. Paul F. Pegelow, Etc. · Fulwood v. Clemmer
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 14 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 in jured in an action at law, suit in equity, or other proper proceeding for redress.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rippen v. Nickles“The association between men in correction institutions is closer and more fraught with physical danger and psychological pressures than is almost any other kind of association between human beings.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sostre v. McGinnis
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.