Reichenberg v. Nelson’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently March 1991
2 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 Brown et al. v. Board of Education of Topeka et al. · Griswold v. State of Connecticut · Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District · Epperson v. Arkansas · McNeese v. Board of Education for Community Unit School District 187 Cahokia
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“at any stage of the action and on such terms as are just.”
1 later decision 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.