Getz v. Bruch’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently August 1993
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 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))
Relies on Conley v. Gibson · Haines v. Kerner · Monroe v. Pape · International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace & Agricultural Implement Workers of America v. Hoosier Cardinal Corp. · Smith v. Bell Telephone Co.
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[T]he federal courts may . . . fashion their own limitations periods whenever a state statute of limitations threatens a federal program’s need for uniformity. United Auto Workers v. Hoosier-Cardinal Corp., 383 U.S. 696 , 86 S.Ct. 1107 , 16 L.Ed.2d 192 (1966); Atkins v. Schmutz Mfg. Co., 435 F.2d 527 (4th Cir. 1970), or discriminates against or overly burdens a federal cause of action. Van Horn v. Lukhard, 392 F.Supp. 384, 391 (E.D.Va.1975).” Id. at 1036.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Eubanks v. Clarke
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.