Choudhry v. Jenkins’s Empirical Analysis
559 F.2d 1085 · 1977
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently August 2013 · most notably Kennett-Murray Corp. v. Bone (1980), Tippens v. Celotex Corp. (1986)
33 federal appellate · 6 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 Wolff v. McDonnell · Pickering v. Board of Education of Township High School District 205 Will County Illinois · Perry v. Sindermann · Bell v. Hood · Procunier v. Martinez
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“not a paradigm of cogency or persuasiveness,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the public interest also encompasses concern for remarks which disclose prison security so abysmal as to put the public in jeopardy”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Rule 56 plainly does not authorize a court to enter an arbitrary summary judgment sua sponte against a party.. .”
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.