Tindle v. Caudell’s Empirical Analysis
56 F.3d 966 · 1995
Citation profile
43 federal appellate · 6 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 79 later decisions — most recently January 2023 · most notably Kinney v. Weaver (2004), Peter Kokkinis v. Vladimir Ivkovich Village of Bridgeview (1999)
43 federal appellate · 6 district · 9 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 Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Pickering v. Board of Education of Township High School District 205 Will County Illinois · Connick v. Myers · Members of the City Council of Los Angeles v. Taxpayers for Vincent
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 79 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Because police departments function as paramilitary organizations charged with maintaining public safety and order, they are given more latitude in their decisions regarding discipline and personnel regulations than an ordinary government employer.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“in promoting the efficiency of the public service it performs”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he ability to conceive of hypothetical problematic applications does not render the rules susceptible to an over-breadth challenge.”
2 later decisions 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.