Belcher v. Stengel’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
76 federal appellate · 12 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 177 later decisions (9 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2024 · most notably Carey v. Piphus (1978), City of Springfield v. Kibbe (1987)
76 federal appellate · 12 district · 13 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedStengel v. Belcher (from Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Piper v. Chris-Craft Industries, Inc. · The Monrosa v. Carbon Black Export, Inc. · Stengel v. Belcher
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 177 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in the line of duty under circumstances relating to police duties”
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.