Marcella Richman v. Michael Sheahan’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
2 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently October 2021 · most notably Rush Creek Solutions, Inc. v. Ute Mountain Ute Tribe (2004), 415 F. Supp. 2d 929 - Richman v. Sheahan (2006)
2 district · 4 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
Relies on Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Mt. Healthy City School District Board of Education v. Doyle · Malley v. Briggs · Kentucky v. Graham
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“being called upon to answer for wrongdoing directed by the judge”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“(1) [there are] no allegations that an agent or employee of the State acted beyond the scope of his authority through wrongful acts; (2) the duty alleged to have been breached was not owed to the public generally independent of the fact of State employment; and (3) * * * the complained-of actions involve matters ordinarily within that employee's normal and official functions of the State.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“affords no protection * * * when it is alleged that the State's agent acted in violation of statutory or constitutional law or in excess of his authority.'”
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.