Eberle v. Baumfalk’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Parratt v. Taylor · Paul v. Davis · Ingraham v. Wright · Penn Central Transportation Co. v. New York City · Bonner v. Coughlin
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Presumably, under this rationale any party who is involved in nothing more than an automobile accident with a state official could allege a constitutional violation under § 1983. Such reasoning “would make of the Fourteenth Amendment a font of tort law to be superimposed upon whatever systems may already be administered by the States.” Paul v. Davis, 424 U.S. 693, 701 [ 96 S.Ct. 1155, 1160 , 47 L.Ed.2d 405 ] (1976). We do not think that the drafters of the Fourteenth Amendment intended the Amendment to play such a role in our society.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ellsworth v. Mockler
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.