Henig v. Odorioso’s Empirical Analysis
385 F.2d 491 · 1967
Citation profile
37 federal appellate · 10 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 96 later decisions — most recently October 2012 · most notably Gray III v. Bell (1983), McCray v. Maryland (1972)
37 federal appellate · 10 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 · Pierson v. Ray · United States v. Classic · Red Ball Motor Freight, Inc. v. Shannon · Hoffman v. Halden
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 96 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Mjisuse of power, possessed, by virtue of state law and made possible only because the wrongdoer is clothed with the authority of state law [is action taken under color of law]. See U. S. v. Classic, 313 U.S. 299 at 326 [ 61 S.Ct. 1031, 1043 , 85 L.Ed. 1368 ] (1940).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Brandon v. Allen
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.