Graves v. Arnado’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
7
cited by 7 later decisions
1
states following
October 2015
most recently cited
3 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]n outgoing elected body of finite tenure which entered into a contract involving a 'governmental' function [cannot] bind a subsequently elected body.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Englehard v. Henzel“shall be ... individually agreed to by elected officials”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.