Cook v. Spencer’s Empirical Analysis
688 F.2d 1017 · 1982
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently March 2011
1 federal appellate · 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 United States v. McRae
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Evidence which is essentially background in nature ... is universally offered and admitted as an aid to understanding.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[B]ackground evidence may be admitted in the judge's discretion.”
1 later decision 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.