Beard v. Robinson’s Empirical Analysis
563 F.2d 331 · 1977
Citation profile
47 federal appellate · 13 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 140 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2021 · most notably Carlson v. Green (1980), Singleton v. City of New York (1980)
47 federal appellate · 13 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Relies on Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · Monroe v. Pape · Paul v. Davis · Runyon v. McCrary · In re Kauffman Mutual Fund Actions
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 140 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In addition to the actions which survive by the common law, the following also survive: ... actions to recover damages for an injury to the person (except slander and libel), ... actions against officers for misfeasance, malfeasance, nonfeasance of themselves or their deputies....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“most courts that have considered the question of the survival of federal civil rights claims have looked to state law, either on the authority of 42 U.S.C. § 1988 or simply because reference to state law obviated the need to fashion an independent federal common law rule.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Green v. Carlson · Green v. Carlson“(T)he applicable limitations period is that which a court of the State where the federal court sits would apply had the action been brought there.”
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.