Stengel v. Belcher’s Empirical Analysis
522 F.2d 438 · 1975
Citation profile
62 federal appellate · 7 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 141 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2024 · most notably Carey v. Piphus (1978), Gibson v. City of Chicago (1990)
62 federal appellate · 7 district · 13 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Relies on Monroe v. Pape · Screws v. United States · Richardson v. Hynson, Westcott & Dunning, Inc. · Basista v. Weir · 147 Ohio St. 416 - Weis v. Weis
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 141 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Acts of police officers in the ambit of their personal, private pursuits fall outside of 42 U.S.C. Sec. 1983.”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“although he overstepped the bounds, [Stengel] intervened in the dispute pursuant to a duty imposed by police department regulations.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“pursuant to a regulation of the police department which required off-duty officers to carry pistols as well as mace at all times.”
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.