Stradley v. Andersen’s Empirical Analysis
478 F.2d 188 · 1973
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 1 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2008 · most notably Kelley v. Johnson (1976), Crain v. Board of Police Commissioners of the Metropolitan Police Department of St. Louis (1990)
25 federal appellate · 1 district · 9 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
Relies on United States v. Mitchell · Bishop v. Colaw · 70 Misc. 2d 632 - Greenwald v. Frank · 336 F. Supp. 487 - Dwen v. Barry
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]hose officials who have spent their life in police work, who are trained in law enforcement discipline, possess far better empirical judgment of what is essential to achieve an efficient and disciplined police force than . . . the predeliction of individual judges.”
4 later decisions 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.