Peter S. Sarelas v. Thomas J. Sheehan’s Empirical Analysis
326 F.2d 490 · 1963
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently July 1993 · most notably Holmes v. New York City Housing Authority (1968), Reichenberger v. Pritchard (1981)
17 federal appellate · 1 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
Relies on Bottone v. Lindsley · Railway Express Agency, Inc. v. Commissioner · Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen v. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Civil Rights Act was not intended to be a source of damage actions brought by disappointed litigants against judicial officers who may commit errors or, irregularities while acting within the scope of their authority during the course of state court litigation.”
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.