Putman v. Gerloff’s Empirical Analysis
701 F.2d 63 · 1983
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently May 2004
3 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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 Bell v. Wolfish · Hanrahan v. Hampton · Hampton v. Hanrahan · Hostrop v. Board of Junior College District No. 515 · Putman v. Gerloff
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Hampton v. Hanrahan, 600 F.2d 600 , 621 (7th Cir.1979) (quotation omitted), rev'd in part on other grounds, 446 U.S. 754 , 100 S.Ct. 1987, 64 L.Ed.2d 670 (1980). The question of the existence of a conspiracy to deprive the plaintiffs of their constitutional rights”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“should not be taken from the jury if there is a possibility the jury could infer from the circumstances a 'meeting of the minds' or understanding among the conspirators to achieve the conspiracy's aims.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“`The charge of conspiracy in a civil action is merely the string whereby the plaintiff seeks to tie together those who, acting in concert, may be held responsible for any overt act or acts.'”
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.