Greminger v. Seaborne’s Empirical Analysis
584 F.2d 275 · 1978
Citation profile
36 federal appellate · 4 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently August 2016 · most notably Copper Liquor, Inc. v. Adolph Coors Co. (1982), United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit (1989)
36 federal appellate · 4 district · 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. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Mt. Healthy City School District Board of Education v. Doyle · Pickering v. Board of Education of Township High School District 205 Will County Illinois · Perry v. Sindermann · Wood v. Strickland
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“may not be dismissed in retaliation for lawful exercise of first amendment freedoms.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“to the extent the sums granted included lost earnings, plaintiffs would not be entitled to an overlapping award of back pay”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“matter for determination by the trial court not the jury”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Trudeau v. Wyrick
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.