Perkins v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
14 district · 4 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Collins v. City of Harker Heights · Blessing v. Freestone · Flesner v. Technical Communications Corp. · Dwyer v. Globe Newspaper Co. · Israel Alicea Rosado v. Ramon Garcia Santiago
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“rights secured by the constitution or laws of the United States, or of rights secured by the constitution or laws of the commonwealth.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Damon v. Hukowicz
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.