Cameron v. Seitz’s Empirical Analysis
38 F.3d 264 · 1994
Citation profile
32 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 115 later decisions — most recently August 2020 · most notably Miller v. Currie (1995), Huminski v. Corsones (2004)
32 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 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 28 U.S.C. § 1367 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Conley v. Gibson · Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Anderson v. Creighton · Pickering v. Board of Education of Township High School District 205 Will County Illinois · Elrod v. Burns
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 115 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] complaint should not be dismissed for failure to state a claim unless it appears beyond doubt that the plaintiff can prove no set of facts in support of his claim which would entitle him to relief.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a] judge's judicial independence would be severely compromised if he could not comment on or criticize the offices supporting his own court, without fear of liability.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a]nytime an action taken by a judge is not an adjudication between parties, it is less likely that the act is a judicial one.”
2 later decisions 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.