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Stephenson v. Gaskins’s Empirical Analysis

531 F.2d 765 · 1976

Citation profile

6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
June 1990
most recently cited

5 federal appellate · 1 state decisions

Relationships

Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))

Relies on Isbell Enterprises, Inc. v. Citizens Casualty Co. of New York · Imbler v. Pachtman · Gerstein v. Pugh · Bryan v. Jones · Dowsey v. Wilkins

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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “not only must have acted in good faith, but also must have acted reasonably.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Richard Guzman and Mary Ann Guzman v. The Western State Bank of Devils Lake, a North Dakota Corp.

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.