Ries v. Lynskey’s Empirical Analysis
452 F.2d 172 · 1971
Citation profile
21 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2012 · most notably Moor v. County of Alameda (1973), Stone v. Morris (1976)
21 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Monroe v. Pape · Palsgraf v. Long Island R.R. Co. · Melvin Carter v. John R. Carlson · United States v. Vasen · United States of America Ex Rel. Robert M. Lee, Jr. v. People of the State of Illinois, City of Chicago Police Department
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[N]ot whether the Congress in 1871 would have included a municipality within the definition of ‘person’ if at the time municipalities generally had not had immunity under the common law of states but rather the test is what Congress meant to do at that time irrespective of the reasons leading to that action. What Congress meant to do, it. seems clear from the exposition in Monroe, was to legislate that ‘person’ did not include a municipality.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gonzalez v. Doe“It is important, if not essential, to the reviewing court that an appellant under Rule 10, Fed.R.App.P., bring before this court all parts of the proceedings below necessary for a determination of the validity of any claimed error.”
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.