Mackey v. Stanton’s Empirical Analysis
586 F.2d 1126 · 1978
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently January 2023 · most notably Kochins v. Linden-Alimak, Inc. (1986), Heiar v. Crawford County (1984)
22 federal appellate · 6 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. § 602 (§ 402 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Mt. Healthy City School District Board of Education v. Doyle · Edelman v. Jordan · Monroe v. Pape · Huffman v. Pursue, Ltd. · King v. Smith
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In all respects that the Supreme Court seemed to consider significant in Mt. Healthy, the county department here is similar to the school board in that case. Although both are subject to state supervision and depend heavily on state funds, they perform their duties on a local level. More important, both have the power to raise their own funds by tax levy and by bond issuance. Significantly, Ind.Code Ann. § 12-1-11-13 (Burns) is analogous to Ohio Rev.Code Ann. § 133.27 (Page), providing a manner for payment of judgments without resort to the state treasury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“When confronted with a court order subject to two possible interpretations, one in compliance with applicable * * * [law], the other in violation of * * * [the law], we must presume that the court intended its order to comply with the controlling law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“to raise its own funds when the need arose,”
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.