Anderson v. Douglas County’s Empirical Analysis
4 F.3d 574 · 1993
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 12 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2021 · most notably Mayhew v. Town of Sunnyvale (1998), Temporomandibular Joint Implants Products Liability Litigation Temporomandibular Joint Implant Recipients v. The Dow Chemical Company
21 federal appellate · 12 district · 7 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 Cooter & Gell v. Hartmarx Corp. · Littlefield v. City of Afton · Sooner Products Co. v. McBride · Chesterfield Development Corporation v. City of Chesterfield M R · Mangold Midwest Co. v. Village of Richfield
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“truly irrational, that is, something more than ... arbitrary, capricious, or in violation of state law.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“applying only to persons whose names begin with a letter in the first half of the alphabet.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.