Perkins v. Cross’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
4 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1981 (Civil Rights Act of 1866) · 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. § 1988
Relies on Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Pierson v. Ray · Butz v. Economou · Carey v. Piphus
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the two cases in which plaintiff recovered nominal damages should not have required more than 20 hours of time to prepare and try.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rev. P.l. Perkins,“replete with gross exaggerations and outright misstatements.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rev. P.l. Perkins,
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.