Ellingburg v. King’s Empirical Analysis
490 F.2d 1270 · 1974
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently May 2002 · most notably Slotnick v. Staviskey (1977), Means v. Wilson (1975)
18 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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 Johnson v. United States · Gittlemacker v. Prasse · Church v. Hegstrom · Fletcher v. Hook
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Broad and conclusory statements unsupported by factual allegations are not sufficient to support a cause of action under § 1983. Id. at 1271 (citations omitted). 4”
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.