Ebmeier v. Stump’s Empirical Analysis
70 F.3d 1012 · 1995
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably 48 Cal. App. 4th 1152 - Clark v. City of Hermosa Beach (1996), Whisman v. Rinehart (1997)
8 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 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 Carnegie v. United States · Siegert v. Gilley · Brame v. United States · Myers v. Morris · Martinez v. Colon
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is established beyond peradventure that a state actor’s failure to observe a duty imposed by state law, standing alone, is not a sufficient foundation on which to erect a section 1983 claim. Although it is true that constitutional significance may attach to certain interests created by state law, not every transgression of state law does double duty as a constitutional violation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Section 1983 guards and vindicates federal rights alone.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. No. 99-1698
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.