Hall v. Wooten’s Empirical Analysis
506 F.2d 564 · 1974
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 5 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2017 · most notably Robertson v. Wegmann (1978), Jones v. Hildebrant (1977)
17 federal appellate · 5 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1985 · 42 U.S.C. § 1986 · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Scheuer v. Rhodes · Monroe v. Pape · Moor v. County of Alameda · Moragne v. States Marine Lines, Inc. · Arizona v. California
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“1. Federal statutory law, unless “not adapted to the object” or “deficient,” applies; 2. If federal statutory law is “not adapted to the object” or “deficient,” state law applies, unless it is “inconsistent with the Constitution and laws of the United States.” 3. If state law is “inconsistent with the Constitution and laws of the United States,” then “federal common law” obtains.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Every person who, (under color of law) 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 majority“No right of action for personal injury or for injury to real or personal property shall cease or die with the person injuring or injured, except actions for slander, libel, criminal conversation, and so much of the action for malicious prosecution as is intended to recover for the personal injury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Roberts v. Girder
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.