Carter v. Burch’s Empirical Analysis
34 F.3d 257 · 1994
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 7 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 79 later decisions — most recently April 2021 · most notably Martin v. Cavalier Hotel Corp. (1995), Broam v. Bogan (2003)
33 federal appellate · 7 district · 3 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 Imbler v. Pachtman · Carey v. Piphus · Allen v. United States · Farrar v. Hobby · Burns v. Reed
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 79 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“still functioning as an advocate for the State”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“performs the investigative functions normally performed by a detective or police officer”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“after [the § 1983 plaintiff's] arrest, but before his conviction,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Broam v. Bogan · Broam v. Bogan
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.