Clappier v. Flynn’s Empirical Analysis
605 F.2d 519 · 1979
Citation profile
43 federal appellate · 10 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 85 later decisions — most recently December 2021 · most notably Ramos v. Lamm (1980), Lenard v. Argento (1983)
43 federal appellate · 10 district · 10 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 · Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. · Scheuer v. Rhodes · Glasser v. United States · Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics
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 85 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the laws of the United States so far as such laws are suitable to carry the same into effect; but in all cases where [federal laws] are not adapted to the object, or are deficient in the provisions necessary to furnish suitable remedies and punish offenses against law, the common law, as modified and changed by the constitution and statutes of the State wherein the court having jurisdiction of such civil or criminal cause is held, so far as the same is not inconsistent with the Constitution and laws of the United States, shall be extended to and govern the said courts in the trial and disposition of the cause ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Burke v. Regalado“[A]n injured party may recover damages only for the actual loss he suffered and no more; he is to be made whole, but not entitled to be put in a better condition than he would be in had the wrong not been committed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[D]ouble recovery is precluded when alternative theories seeking the same relief are pled and tried together.”
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.