Sanders v. Buchanan’s Empirical Analysis
407 F.2d 161 · 1969
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently May 2006
17 federal appellate · 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 28 U.S.C. § 1343 · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Coulston v. United States · General Motors Corporation v. Dorethea M. Walden, the Surviving Spouse of Homer L. Walden, Deceased · Rocky Mountain Trucking Co. v. Taylor · Lebeck v. William A. Jarvis, Inc. · Great-West Life Assurance Co. v. Levy
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The court has received your request which reads as follows: 'Can we have the police manual with clauses underlined denoting the proper circumstances under which a policeman may shoot? Clauses which were read in court.' The court cannot grant this request.”
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.