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559 F.2d 1098 · 1977

Citation profile

43
cited by 43 later decisions
2
states following
June 2011
most recently cited

20 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently June 2011 · most notably Gibson v. City of Chicago (1990), Dewey Dds v. Louisiana State Board of Dentistry (1980)

20 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions

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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)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1985 · 42 U.S.C. § 1986

Relies on Monroe v. Pape · Paul v. Davis · Ingraham v. Wright · United States v. Price · City of Kenosha v. Bruno

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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “Although Judge Gordon had no problem with the color of law requirement of Section 1983, defendants challenge this element, saying the police officer defendants were off duty and not in uniform. The evidence disclosed that when they exited their car, Dennis Murphy and Cameron immediately identified themselves as police officers. They were carrying their badges and guns and were on duty under regulations of the Milwaukee Police Department “to be always subject to duty * * Plaintiffs have sufficiently shown that these defendants were acting under color of law.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Lawson v. Wiggins

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.