Clark v. Mann’s Empirical Analysis
562 F.2d 1104 · 1977
Citation profile
40 federal appellate · 7 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 85 later decisions — most recently February 2013 · most notably Womack v. Munson (1980), Bibbs v. Block (1985)
40 federal appellate · 7 district · 3 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 28 U.S.C. § 2201 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 701 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Perry v. Sindermann · Village of Arlington Heights v. Metropolitan Housing Development Corp. · Washington v. Davis · Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District
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 85 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where, as here, suit is brought pursuant to 42 U.S.C. Sec. 1983, plaintiffs ordinarily retain the burden of proof throughout the trial”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Crowder v. Sinyard“without prejudice to the right of the other members of this or any other class to initiate a new action if they see fit.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Marshall v. Kirkland“If there was a misunderstanding, the responsibility therefor rests with plaintiffs.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Marshall v. Kirkland
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.