Crowe v. Lucas’s Empirical Analysis
595 F.2d 985 · 1979
Citation profile
51 federal appellate · 6 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 103 later decisions — most recently February 2018 · most notably Familias Unidas v. Briscoe (1980), United Steelworkers of America v. Phelps Dodge Corporation, a New York Corporation, Defendants (1989)
51 federal appellate · 6 district · 11 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
Relies on Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Scheuer v. Rhodes · Pierson v. Ray · Bishop v. Wood · Stump v. Sparkman
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 103 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(r)ather, Boeing requires us to determine whether reasonable men could, under any theory submitted to the jury, have resolved the dispute as the jury did.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Since the question whether local government bodies should be afforded some form'of official immunity was not presented as a question to be decided on this petition and was not briefed by the parties nor addressed by the Courts below, we express no views on the scope of any municipal immunity beyond holding that municipal bodies sued under § 1983 cannot be entitled to an absolute immunity, lest our decision that such bodies are subject to suit under § 1983 ‘be drained of meaning.’ Scheuer v. Rhodes, 416 U.S. 232 , 248, 94 S.Ct. 1683 , 1692, 40 L.Ed. 90 (1974).””
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.