Dohaish v. Tooley’s Empirical Analysis
670 F.2d 934 · 1982
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 22 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 77 later decisions — most recently October 2017 · most notably Shaw v. Stroud (1994), Meade v. Grubbs (1988)
29 federal appellate · 22 district · 6 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. § 1981 (Civil Rights Act of 1866)
Relies on Warth v. Seldin · Imbler v. Pachtman · Davis v. Passman · Linda R. S. v. Richard D. · Yaselli v. Goff
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 77 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he § 1983 civil rights action is a personal suit. It does not accrue to a relative, even the father of the deceased.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[S]tanding and the cause of action based on violation of civil rights”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“focus on the nature of the plaintiff's injury and the nature of the invasion of his alleged right.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.