Lang v. Cone’s Empirical Analysis
542 F.2d 751 · 1976
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently April 1997 · most notably United States v. Manbeck (1984), Daniel L. SHULL, Appellant, v. DAIN, KALMAN & QUAIL, INC., a Corporation, and Harry Ware, Appellees (1977)
20 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 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 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Baldasaro Palmentere v. William J. Campbell · Smith v. South Central Bell Telephone Co. · Taylor v. Honeywell, Inc.
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the district court may find the facts itself and may render judgment against the plaintiff if the court considers the plaintiff has not made out a case, and ... its findings will not be reversed on appeal unless clearly erroneous.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“view the evidence in the light most favorable to the plaintiff, and to give the plaintiff the benefit of all favorable inferences reasonably to be drawn from the evidence.”
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.