Cook v. Houston Post’s Empirical Analysis
616 F.2d 791 · 1980
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably Rose 88-1634 v. Bartle a Reed W 88-1646 (1989), Myers v. Morris (1987)
24 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 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 Paul v. Davis · Imbler v. Pachtman · Baker v. McCollan · Griffin v. Breckenridge · James H. McLellan v. Mississippi Power & Light Company, International Brotherhood of Electricalworkers, Local 605 Electrical Workers
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Not all of an advocate's work is done in the courtroom. For a lawyer to properly try a case, he must confer with witnesses, and conduct some of his own factual investigation.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The Constitution does not guarantee that only the guilty will be indicted and arrested. If it did, § 1983 would provide a cause of action for every defendant acquitted — indeed for every suspect arrested.” Baker v. McCollan, 443 U.S. 137 , 99 S.Ct. 2689 , 61 L.Ed.2d 433 (1979).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Reese v. York“Appellants' interest with reputation, false arrest, malicious prosecution, libel and slander are matters which the state protects by virtue of its tort law.... Having been deprived of no rights secured under the Constitution, appellants have no claim cognizable under Sec. 1983.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Geter v. Fortenberry
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.