Fischer v. Cahill’s Empirical Analysis
474 F.2d 991 · 1973
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably Hampton v. Holmesburg Prison Officials (1976), Braden v. University of Pittsburgh (1973)
13 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Haines v. Kerner · Lynch v. Household Finance Corp. · McNeil v. Director, Patuxent Institution · Presbyterian Church in the United States v. Mary Elizabeth Blue Hull Memorial Presbyterian Church · United States ex rel. Gittlemacker v. County of Philadelphia
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A claim of denial of such a statement, minimally at least, can be construed on this record as setting forth a denial of the equal protection of the laws.”
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.