Roden v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently February 2016
11 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 28 U.S.C. § 1367 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Rich v. Dollar · Ia Durbin Inc v. Jefferson National Bank Aia · Sims v. Metropolitan Dade County · 566 So. 2d 723 - Dairyland Ins. Co. v. Jackson
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“he was acting within the scope of his discretionary authority when the allegedly wrongful acts occurred.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage““Malice does not equate with negligence. Alabama Power Co. v. Laney, 428 So.2d 21 (Ala.1983). Malice requires ‘proof that [the defendant] intentionally disparaged [the] plaintiffs title to the property slandered or recklessly disparaged [it] without information sufficient to support a bona fide belief’ in the veracity of the disparaging statement. Harrison v. Mitchell, 391 So.2d 1038, 1041 (Ala.Civ.App.1980) (emphasis added). In other words, ‘if the defendant had probable cause for believing the statement, there can in law be no malice.’ [Merchants Nat’l Bank of Mobile v.] Steiner, 404 So.2d [14] at 21 [ (Ala.1981) ] (emphasis added).””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[A] comparison of the legal and factual questions involved in this action with those involved in Roden's § 1983 action reveals a factual issue that is common to both actions, that is, whether [the chairman's action] was a discretionary act taken within the scope of his authority.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.