Blue v. Craig’s Empirical Analysis
505 F.2d 830 · 1974
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 1993 · most notably Maine v. Thiboutot (1980), Mahone v. Waddle (1977)
30 federal appellate · 4 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
Relies on Edelman v. Jordan · Goldberg v. Kelly · Dandridge v. Williams · Hagans v. Lavine · Hague v. Committee for Industrial Organization
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured by the Constitution and laws”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]f facts giving the court jurisdiction are set forth in the complaint, the provision conferring jurisdiction need not be specifically pleaded.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““[I]t is true that § 1983 has quite often been used as a means of protecting Constitutionally guaranteed rights, particularly in the area of equal protection of the Negro. But the language of this civil rights statute is broad: it is a violation of the statute to transgress ‘any rights, privileges, or immunities secured by the Constitution and laws’ of the United States. (Court’s italics) * * * Moreover, the Supreme Court in Peacock v. City of Greenwood, 1964, 384 U.S. 808 , 86 S.Ct. 1800 , 16 L.Ed.2d 944 , clearly indicated that § 1983 was applicable when statutory, as well as, constitutional ‘rights, privileges and immunities’ were involved.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Medley v. Ginsberg
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.