Buskirk v. Seiple’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
2 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently April 2009 · most notably Wiehagen v. Borough of North Braddock (1991), 827 F. Supp. 1193 - Weinstein v. Bullick (1993)
2 district · 8 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 Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Pierson v. Ray · Baker v. McCollan · Maine v. Thiboutot · City of Newport v. Fact Concerts, Inc.
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In computing any period of time proscribed or allowed by these rules, by the local rules of any district court, by order of court, or by any applicable statute, the day of the act, event or default from which the designated period of time begins to run shall not be included. The last day of the period shall be included, unless it is on a Saturday, a Sunday, or a legal holiday, or, when the act to be done is the filing of a paper in court, a day on which weather or other conditions have made the office of the clerk of the district court inaccessible, in which event the period runs until the end of the next day which is not one of the aforementioned days.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Except as otherwise provided in this subchapter, no local agency shall be liable for any damages on account of any injury to a person or property caused by any act of the local agency or an employee thereof or any other person.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Burkhart v. Knepper““5. This, same conclusion warrants dismissal of the pendant claims asserted against defendants Moore Township, Bushkill Township and Tatamy Borough.””
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.