Carlos Melara v. James J. Kennedy’s Empirical Analysis
541 F.2d 802 · 1976
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2018 · most notably Flagg Brothers Inc v. Brooks J Lefkowitz (1978), Howerton v. Gabica (1983)
26 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 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
Relies on Bowman Transportation, Inc. v. Arkansas-Best Freight System, Inc. · Jackson v. Metropolitan Edison Co. · Burton v. Wilmington Parking Authority · Moose Lodge No. 107 v. Irvis · Hampton v. United States
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Further, the statute creates only the right to act; it does not require that such action be taken.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Every person who, under color of any statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage, of any State or Territory, subjects, or causes to be subjected, any citizen of the United States or other person within the jurisdiction thereof to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured by the Constitution and laws, shall be liable to the party injured in an action at law, suit in equity, or other proper proceeding for redress.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gibson v. Dixon
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.