O'Malley v. Brierley’s Empirical Analysis
477 F.2d 785 · 1973
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 12 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions — most recently April 2016 · most notably Gant v. Wallingford Board of Education (1995), Gerard Cardenas v. Jon Massey (2001)
14 federal appellate · 12 district · 3 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 Pickering v. Board of Education of Township High School District 205 Will County Illinois · McGowan v. State of Maryland Gallagher · Lemon v. Kurtzman · National Association for Advancement of Colored People v. State of Alabama Patterson · Cafeteria & Restaurant Workers Union, Local 473 v. McElroy
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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“cannot sue for the deprivation of another’s civil rights.” O’Malley v. Brierley, 477 F.2d 785, 789 (3d Cir.1973). See Archuleta v. McShan, 897 F.2d 495, 497 (10th Cir.1990) (”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“determination, the fact finder shall find the regulation to be reasonable only if the alternative chosen ... resulted in the least possible”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“where a state does afford prison inmates the opportunity of practicing a religion, it may not, without reasonable justification, curtail the practice of religion by one sect.”
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.