Coggins v. McQueen’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
4 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently June 2007
4 federal appellate ·
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. § 1331 · 28 U.S.C. § 1343 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1985 · 42 U.S.C. § 1986
Relies on United Mine Workers of America v. Gibbs · Mt. Healthy City School District Board of Education v. Doyle · Monroe v. Pape · Hagans v. Lavine · Rizzo v. Goode
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is well settled in this circuit that liability based directly upon 42 U.S.C. § 1983 cannot be based on a theory of vicarious liability, but instead requires actual participation in the unlawful conduct, or actual knowledge of and acquiescence in that conduct.” Coggins v. McQueen, 447 F.Supp. 960 , 966 (E.D.Pa. 1978).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Scott v. Plante“In doing the acts and things above complained of the Defendants were conspirators engaged in a scheme and conspiracy designed and intended to deny and deprive the Plaintiffs’ rights guaranteed to Plaintiffs under the Constitution”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Barr v. Hardiman“Conclusory claims of conspiracy unsupported by factual allegations regarding an agreement are insufficient to establish a 1985(3) claim.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.