Rivera v. Freeman’s Empirical Analysis
469 F.2d 1159 · 1972
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 4 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 1996 · most notably Gerstein v. Pugh (1975), Sosna v. Iowa (1975)
17 federal appellate · 4 district · 4 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. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 1343 · 28 U.S.C. § 2201 · 28 U.S.C. § 2281 · 28 U.S.C. § 2283 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Younger v. Harris · Flast v. Cohen · Dombrowski v. Pfister · Samuels v. J Mackell Fernandez · Mitchum v. Foster
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“bad faith, harassment, or any other unusual circumstance that would call for equitable relief.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Henkel v. Bradshaw
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.