Massey v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
555 F.2d 1355 · 1977
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently March 1996
8 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 · Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory · Griffin v. Breckenridge · Martin McNally v. The Pulitzer Publishing Company and Ted Gest · Inmates of Attica Correctional Facility v. Rockefeller
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is well settled that some class-based animus must be alleged to state a claim under § 1985(3).”
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.