Maurice Sigler v. Vincent R. Lowrie’s Empirical Analysis
404 F.2d 659 · 1969
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 5 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably Vanskike v. Peters (1992), 334 F. Supp. 774 - Sims v. Parke Davis & Co. (1971)
22 federal appellate · 5 district · 4 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 Screws v. United States · Stiltner v. Rhay · Ughbanks v. Armstrong · Douglas v. Sigler
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Title 42 U.S.C. § 1983 is not concerned with mere violations of state law.”
1 later decision 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.