Ralph d.crabtree v. Robert L. Brennan’s Empirical Analysis
466 F.2d 480 · 1972
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 2 district ·
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1985
Relies on Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Griffin v. Breckenridge · United States v. Ash · Thomas Justin Orr v. Raymond E. Trinter
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“there must be some racial, or perhaps otherwise class based, invidiously discriminatory animus behind the conspirators' action.”
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.