Reimer v. Short’s Empirical Analysis
578 F.2d 621 · 1978
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently August 2007 · most notably Wilborn v. Escalderon (1986), Webster v. City of Houston (1984)
30 federal appellate · 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 42 U.S.C. § 1981 (Civil Rights Act of 1866)
Relies on Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Scheuer v. Rhodes · Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · Monroe v. Pape · Pierson v. Ray
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“no evidence that the City . . . 'acted' through its policies, formally or informally adopted, to deprive (Reeves) of his constitutional rights . . . the action was properly dismissed as to the City.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“of such quality and weight that reasonable and fair-minded men in the exercise of impartial judgment might reach different conclusions”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]t is beyond the scope of this Restatement to state when an officer . . . is authorized to act.”
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.