Kincaid v. Rusk’s Empirical Analysis
670 F.2d 737 · 1982
Citation profile
54 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 89 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2019 · most notably Memphis Community School District v. Stachura (1986), Hobson v. Wilson (1984)
54 federal appellate · 2 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
Relies on Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Estelle v. Gamble · Bell v. Wolfish · Carey v. Piphus · Wood v. Strickland
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 89 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A demand for present or prospective (declaratory or injunctive) relief imposes a substantial burden on the plaintiff to show survival of the controversy. Thus, when a public official is sued in his official capacity and the official is replaced or succeeded in office during the pendency of the litigation, the burden is on the complainant to establish the need for declaratory or injunctive relief by demonstrating that the successor in office will continue the relevant policies of his predecessors.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Moore v. Watson“Because the purpose of Sec. 1983 is to compensate for the injuries resulting from a deprivation of constitutional rights, [plaintiff] must demonstrate that the restrictions found unlawful here caused compensable injury. Carey v. Piphus, 435 U.S. 247 , 254-255, 98 S.Ct. 1042, 1047-1048, 55 L.Ed.2d 252 (1978); Wood v. Strickland, 420 U.S. 308 , 319, 95 S.Ct. 992, 999, 43 L.Ed.2d 214 (1975).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Crawford v. Garnier“Because the purpose of section 1983 is to compensate for the injuries resulting from a deprivation of constitutional rights, [the plaintiff] must demonstrate that the restrictions found unlawful here caused some compensable injury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Freeman v. Franzen
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.