Lindes v. Sutter’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently January 2016
6 federal appellate · 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 United Mine Workers of America v. Gibbs · Wilson v. Garcia · S.S. Zoe Colocotroni v. Puerto Rico · Kush v. Rutledge · Singleton v. City of New York
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“designed to divert certain individuals from the ordinary course of prosecution into programs which provide rehabilitative services and supervisory treatment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Davis v. Grusemeyer“not the equivalent of a judgment of acquittal or an otherwise favorable termination of the criminal proceeding”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Davis v. Grusemeyer
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.