Atcherson v. Siebenmann’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently March 2024
7 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 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. § 1331 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Scheuer v. Rhodes · Mt. Healthy City School District Board of Education v. Doyle · Pickering v. Board of Education of Township High School District 205 Will County Illinois · Imbler v. Pachtman · Pierson v. Ray
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.
“the creation of disharmony cannot be so feared as to silence the critic who would inform the public of this misbehavior by public officials.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the circumstances as they reasonably appeared at the time of the action on which liability is sought to be based.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“although often well-intentioned and on behalf of juveniles under her supervision, created conflict,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.