Colon v. Mack’s Empirical Analysis
56 F.3d 5 · 1995
Citation profile
10 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently August 2015
10 federal appellate ·
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 Chira v. Lockheed Aircraft Corp. · Herbert E. Theilmann, Administrator of Herbert K. Theilmann v. The Rutland Hospital, Inc., and Dr. Donald D. Dingman · Teresa Alvarez, Cross-Appellee v. Simmons Market Research Bureau, Inc. And Jwt Group, Inc., Cross-Appellants · Harding v. Federal Reserve Bank · Nita v. Connecticut Dept. of Environmental Protection
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'dismissal is "a harsh remedy to be utilized only in extreme situations.”
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.