Kimbrough v. O'Neil’s Empirical Analysis
545 F.2d 1059 · 1976
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 5 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 1992 · most notably Parratt v. Taylor (1981), Ruiz v. Estelle (1982)
25 federal appellate · 5 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Monroe v. Pape · Paul v. Davis · Lynch v. Household Finance Corp. · Pomponio v. United States · Palm Beach Newspapers, Inc. v. Early
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a taking with intent (or reckless disregard) of a claimant's property by a State agent violates the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and is actionable under Section 1983”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Parratt v. Taylor
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.