Green v. Dumke’s Empirical Analysis
480 F.2d 624 · 1973
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently March 2010 · most notably Gibson v. United States (1986), Briley v. California (1977)
20 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 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 18 U.S.C. § 242 · 20 U.S.C. § 1060 · 28 U.S.C. § 1343 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. · Goldberg v. Kelly · Monroe v. Pape · Dandridge v. Williams · Screws v. United States
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“accommodate changing circumstances and the exigencies of a given era.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Every person who, under color of any statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage, of any State or Territory or the Dis trict of Columbia, subjects, or causes to be subjected, any citizen of the United States or other person within the jurisdiction thereof to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured by the Constitution and laws, shall be liable to the party injured in an action at law, suit in equity, or other proper proceeding for redress ____”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Anderson v. Spalding“3. The requirement of 42 U.S.C. § 1983 that challenged actions be under color of state law is treated as equivalent to the state action requirement of the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause. Parks v.”
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.