Schnabel v. Tyler’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently January 2011 · most notably Taylor v. Metzger (1998), Schnabel v. Tyler (1994)
44 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)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Hensley v. Eckerhart · Mt. Healthy City School District Board of Education v. Doyle · Pickering v. Board of Education of Township High School District 205 Will County Illinois · Monroe v. Pape
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]s a general rule, even in cases alleging judicial bias, this court will not consider the issue on appeal where the party failed to make the proper motion for disqualification at trial. . . . Failure to request recusal or move for a mistrial represents the [parties'] acquiescence to the judge presiding over the trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Once that burden has been met, the opposing party ha[s] [to show] by a preponderance of the evidence that it would have reached the same decision as to [the defendant's treatment] even in the absence of the protected conduct.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`show that his conduct was constitutionally protected, and that this conduct was a . . . motivating factor in the [opponent's] decision' to act in the complained manner.”
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.