Connors v. McNulty’s Empirical Analysis
697 F.2d 18 · 1983
Citation profile
24 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently January 2009 · most notably Davet v. Maccarone (1992), Voutour v. Vitale (1985)
24 federal appellate ·
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 Scheuer v. Rhodes · Allen v. McCurry · Pierson v. Ray · Wood v. Strickland · Gomez v. Toledo
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]n error in jury instructions will mandate reversal of a judgment only if the error is determined to have been prejudicial, based on a review of the record as a whole.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“persuaded that the error was prejudicial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Vaughn v. Willis
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.