Rivers v. Royster’s Empirical Analysis
360 F.2d 592 · 1966
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 8 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently June 1994 · most notably Sostre v. McGinnis (1971), Gates v. Collier (1974)
27 federal appellate · 8 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 Monroe v. Pape · McNeese v. Board of Education for Community Unit School District 187 Cahokia · Cooper v. Pate · Powell v. Workmen's Compensation Board · James Pierce v. J. E. La Vallee, Warden of Clinton Prison, Dannemora, New York, Martin T. Sostre v. J. E. La Vallee, Warden of Clinton Prison, Dannemora, New York, William Sa Marion v. J. E. La Vallee, Warden of Clinton Prison, Dannemora, New York
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“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 majority“The prison superintendent may not resort to acts of racial discrimination in the administration of the prison. The State has filed an answer denying the allegations of the complaint. If the alleged act never took place or the periodical was denied the petitioner on grounds other than race, then the court may consider refusing to interfere with matters of proper prison discipline.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Owens v. Brierley
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.