Kite v. Kelley’s Empirical Analysis
546 F.2d 334 · 1976
Citation profile
55 federal appellate · 27 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 102 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2010 · most notably Meade v. Grubbs (1988), Woodward v. City of Worland (1992)
55 federal appellate · 27 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 Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · Rizzo v. Goode · City of Kenosha v. Bruno · District of Columbia v. Carter · Melvin Carter v. John R. Carlson
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 102 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“participated or acquiesced in the constitutional deprivations of which the complaint is made.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“affirmative link [between the supervisor and the subordinate] showing [the supervisor's] authorization or approval of such misconduct”
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.