Ardale Calvin v. James B. Conlisk, Jr., Etc.’s Empirical Analysis
520 F.2d 1 · 1975
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 9 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently April 2011 · most notably Mahone v. Waddle (1977), Hostrop v. Board of Junior College District No. 515 (1975)
27 federal appellate · 9 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 Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · Baker v. Carr · Monroe v. Pape · Bell v. Hood · Flast v. Cohen
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Plaintiffs claim that Defendants, by their actions under color of State law and motivated by racial prejudice as aforesaid, have violated and deprived Plaintiffs of rights, privileges and immunities secured by the Constitution and laws of the United States in the following particulars; A. Defendants stopped, detained, abused, insulted, brutalized, searched, seized, beat, arrested, confined, imprisoned, prosecuted and gave false testimony against Plaintiffs because Plaintiffs are Black and for the purpose of denying and depriving Plaintiffs of equal protection and benefits of the law, equal privileges and immunities under the law and due process of law as secured by the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States and 42 U.S.C. §§ 1981 and 1983; B. Defendants stopped, detained, searched, seized, arrested, confined and imprisoned Plaintiffs without a warrant and without probable cause in violation of Plaintiffs’ rights tó be free from unreasonable searches and seizures and to due process of law secured by the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States and 42 U.S.C. § 1983 . C. Defendants abused, brutalized, beat, searched, seized, arrested, confined and imprisoned Plaintiffs because Plaintiffs exercised their rights to freedom of speech secured by the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States and 42 U.S.C. § 1983 ; * * * * * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Mahone v. Waddle“(t)here is no provision of the Constitution analogous to Article I, Section 8, Clause 16 (relied upon in Gilligan ), that would be applicable to this case, which involves an area within the control of a municipal agency, rather than a co-equal branch of the federal government.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“of many similar occurrences . . . recurring over the course of many years.”
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.