Joe Silver, and Cross-Appellants v. Paul S. Cormier, and Cross-Appellee’s Empirical Analysis
529 F.2d 161 · 1976
Citation profile
41 federal appellate · 15 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 87 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2020 · most notably Carey v. Piphus (1978), City of Newport v. Fact Concerts, Inc. (1981)
41 federal appellate · 15 district · 12 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Richardson v. Hynson, Westcott & Dunning, Inc. · Iannelli v. United States · Upper Pecos Ass'n v. Peterson · Reardon v. Meacham · Basista v. Weir
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 87 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A public official's threats to a citizen to withhold monies due and owing, should legal proceedings on an independent matter be instituted, burdens or chills constitutional rights of access to the courts.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“manifests a reckless indifference to the property rights of others, illwill, a desire to injure or malice.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.