Margaret S. Rodriguez v. Donald E. Ritchey’s Empirical Analysis
539 F.2d 394 · 1976
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently December 2008 · most notably Ellis v. Blum (1981), Margaret S. Rodriguez v. Donald E. Ritchey (1977)
20 federal appellate · 4 district ·
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 Erie Co v. Tompkins · Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · Paul v. Davis · Bell v. Hood · Pierson v. Ray
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“he knew or reasonably should have known that the action he took within his sphere of official responsibility would violate the constitutional rights of the student affected, or if he took the action with the malicious intention to cause a deprivation of constitutional rights or other injury to the student. Wood v. Strickland, supra, 420 U.S. at 322 , 95 S.Ct. at 1001 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Nor are we asked in this case to impose liability upon a congressional employee for actions contrary to no constitutional prohibition, but merely said to be in excess of the authority delegated to him by the Congress. Wheeldin v. Wheeler, 373 U.S. 647 (83 S.Ct. 1441, 10 L.Ed.2d 605) (1963).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“it is perhaps needless to state that we are not in the free-wheeling days antedating Erie R. Co. v. Tompkins, 304 U.S. 64 , 58 S.Ct. 817, 82 L.Ed. 1188. The instances where we have created federal common law are few and restricted.”
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.