Le Grand v. Evan’s Empirical Analysis
702 F.2d 415 · 1983
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably Boguslavsky v. Kaplan (1998), Fay v. South Colonie Central School District (1986)
15 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 28 U.S.C. § 1915 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Haines v. Kerner · Edelman v. Jordan · Quern v. Jordan · 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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although we have not passed on the issue, many courts have accorded clerks only a qualified 'good faith' immunity from liability arising from ministerial acts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rodriguez v. Weprin
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.