Stevens v. Rifkin’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently February 2006
8 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 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. § 1985
Relies on Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · New York Times Co. v. Sullivan · Monroe v. Pape · Paul v. Davis · Imbler v. Pachtman
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the defamatory statements were made in connection with [plaintiffs' allegedly] unconstitutional arrests and prosecution.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“surely perceived the defamatory statements made ... to be connected to the arrests and search and seizure”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cooper v. Dupnik
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.