Kermit Construction Corp. v. Banco Credito Y Ahorro Ponceno’s Empirical Analysis
547 F.2d 1 · 1976
Citation profile
44 federal appellate · 26 district · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 125 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2016 · most notably Stump v. Sparkman (1978), Dennis v. Sparks (1980)
44 federal appellate · 26 district · 17 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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 Scheuer v. Rhodes · Imbler v. Pachtman · Pierson v. Ray · Griffin v. Breckenridge · Wood v. Strickland
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 125 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'lightning rod[s] for harassing litigation aimed at judicial orders.'”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage“receivers are court officers who share the immunity awarded to judges.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.