Goldschmidt v. Patchett’s Empirical Analysis
686 F.2d 582 · 1982
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 3 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently April 2022 · most notably Myers v. Morris (1987), Gray III v. Bell (1983)
17 federal appellate · 3 district · 5 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 Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. · United Mine Workers of America v. Gibbs · Imbler v. Pachtman · Rosado v. Wyman · Dennis v. Sparks
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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Section 1983 does not, however, punish conspiracy; an actual denial of a civil right is necessary before a cause of action arises.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“plaintiff fail[ed] to allege any present injury flowing from the claimed First Amendment violation.... Apparently defendant's letter did not have any chilling effect on plaintiff because plaintiff continued to advertise his services.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“not the sort of activity which could be performed by a layman with the same effectiveness that a letter from the prosecutor's office would accomplish”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gray III v. Bell
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.