McCurry v. Allen’s Empirical Analysis
606 F.2d 795 · 1979
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1995 · most notably Allen v. McCurry (1980), Deakins v. Monaghan (1988)
21 federal appellate · 3 district ·
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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Younger v. Harris · Stone v. Powell · Huffman v. Pursue, Ltd. · Juidice v. Vail · Mitchum v. Foster
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(I)t is our duty to consider fully, unencumbered by the doctrine of collateral estoppel, appellant's § 1983 claims.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Johnson v. Mateer
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.