Glasscoe v. Howell’s Empirical Analysis
431 F.2d 863 · 1970
Citation profile
32 federal appellate · 6 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently September 2007 · most notably Garcia v. Wilson (1984), 13 Cal. 3d 518 - Brown v. Pitchess (1975)
32 federal appellate · 6 district · 2 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 Monroe v. Pape · O'Sullivan v. Felix · Russell M. Smith v. John J. Cremins, Jr., John F. Mahon, Jr. · Bomar v. Keyes · Donald A. Swan v. Board of Higher Education of the City of New York by Gustave G. Rosenberg, Its Chairman, George A. Pierson, and Margaret v. Kiely
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘a deprivation of a constitutional right is significantly different from and more serious than a violation of a state right and therefore deserves a different remedy even though the same act may constitute both a state tort and the deprivation of a constitutional right.’”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Garmon v. Foust · Garcia v. Wilson“(t) he United States Supreme Court has made it clear that an action commenced under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 alleging a deprivation of federal constitutional rights under color of state authority is a broad statutory remedy provided for by Congress.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“A Limitation on Actions for Deprivation of Federal Rights,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Reed v. Hutto
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.