431 F. Supp. 1295 - Mitchell v. Hendricks’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently June 2013
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 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
Relies on United Mine Workers of America v. Gibbs · Estelle v. Gamble · Rochin v. People of California · Rizzo v. Goode · Patterson v. United States
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. . [I]t is necessary to establish actual personal knowledge or involvement, the personal ordering of a subordinate to do acts, or actual knowledge of the acts of subordinates and acquiescence therein if liability of a superior, in a civil rights action is to be found.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“when plaintiff knows or has reason to know of the injury which is the basis of the action.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Fernandez v. Chardon
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.