Belvera M. Mack v. Donald C. Alexander, Commissioner’s Empirical Analysis
575 F.2d 488 · 1978
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently December 2024 · most notably Iqbal v. Hasty (2007), Adams v. United States (1980)
20 federal appellate · 3 district ·
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
Relies on Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · Isbell Enterprises, Inc. v. Citizens Casualty Co. of New York · Garner v. United States · Margaret S. Rodriguez v. Donald E. Ritchey · Walker v. Blackwell
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“provide a remedy for deprivation of rights under color of state law and do not apply when the defendants are acting under color of federal law.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cant v. Moody · Kenyatta v. Moore
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.