Robichaud v. Ronan’s Empirical Analysis
351 F.2d 533 · 1965
Citation profile
83 federal appellate · 16 district · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 180 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2014 · most notably Imbler v. Pachtman (1976), DeLaurentis v. City of New Haven (1991)
83 federal appellate · 16 district · 32 state decisions — followed in 16 states
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 Conley v. Gibson · Monroe v. Pape · United States v. Classic · Tenney v. Brandhove · Central of Georgia Railway Co. v. Jones
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 180 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“committed acts, or authoritatively directed the commission of acts, which ordinarily are related to police activity as opposed to judicial activity”
24 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"Every person who, under color of any statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage, of any State or Territory, subjects, or causes to be subjected, any citizen of the United States or other person within the jurisdiction thereof to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured by the Constitution and laws, shall be liable to the party injured in an action at law, suit in equity, or other proper proceeding for redress."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Powell v. Seay“The county attorney is the public prosecutor of the county.”
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.