Esmail v. Macrane’s Empirical Analysis
53 F.3d 176 · 1995
Citation profile
86 federal appellate · 18 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 217 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2021 · most notably Village of Willowbrook v. Olech (2000), Edwards v. City of Goldsboro (1999)
86 federal appellate · 18 district · 12 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.
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on City of Cleburne Texas v. Cleburne Living Center · Albright v. Oliver · Wayte v. United States · United States Railroad Retirement Board v. Fritz · Strauder v. West Virginia
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 217 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`get' [someone] for reasons wholly unrelated to any legitimate state objective.”
18 later decisions quote this exact passage“governmental action wholly impossible to relate to legitimate governmental objectives.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage“[i]f the power of government is brought to bear on a harmless individual merely because a powerful state or local official harbors a malignant animosity toward him, the individual ought to have a remedy in federal court”
6 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.