Mitchell v. King’s Empirical Analysis
537 F.2d 385 · 1976
Citation profile
32 federal appellate · 94 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 174 later decisions — most recently April 2015 · most notably Egger v. Phillips (1983), Swanson v. Bixler (1984)
32 federal appellate · 94 district · 9 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 28 U.S.C. § 1343 · 28 U.S.C. § 2201 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Conley v. Gibson · Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Scheuer v. Rhodes · Pickering v. Board of Education of Township High School District 205 Will County Illinois · Baker v. Carr
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 174 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“admits all well-pleaded facts in the complaint as distinguished from conclusory allegations.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A] state public official is not liable for damages in a § 1983 action unless he knew or reasonably should have known that his action would have violated another’s federal constitutional rights. Such an official is under no duty to anticipate unforeseeable constitutional developments.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]t is the Governor, the chief executive, who is held responsible to the sovereignty for errors in his executive and administrative policies.”
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.