Meiners v. Moriarity’s Empirical Analysis
563 F.2d 343 · 1977
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 9 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently October 2014 · most notably Berkey v. Delia (1980), Novotny v. Great American Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n (1978)
19 federal appellate · 9 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 18 U.S.C. § 3041 · 28 U.S.C. § 517 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · New York Times Co. v. Sullivan · Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc. · United States v. Matlock · Garrison v. State of Louisiana
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Street level policemen ... [have] such apparent importance that the public has an independent interest in the qualifications and performance of the person who holds [such a position].... Misuse of his authority can result in significant deprivation of constitutional rights and personal freedoms, not to mention bodily injury and financial loss. The strong public interest in ensuring open discussion and criticism of his qualifications and job performance warrant the conclusion that he is a public official.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“that he belongs to the kind of class . . . that could support a claim under § 1985(3)”
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.