Maclin v. Paulson’s Empirical Analysis
627 F.2d 83 · 1980
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 7 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2007 · most notably Hughes v. Rowe (1980), Black v. Stephens (1981)
34 federal appellate · 7 district · 1 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))
Relies on Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · Estelle v. Gamble · Gerstein v. Pugh · Penn Central Transportation Co. v. New York City · Mobil Alaska Pipeline Co. v. United States
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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a party is ignorant of defendants' true identity, it is unnecessary to name them until their identity can be learned through discovery or through the aid of the trial court”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[P]laintiff should have been permitted to obtain ... identity [of unidentified officers] through limited discovery.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Davis v. Kelly
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.