McKee v. Heggy’s Empirical Analysis
703 F.2d 479 · 1983
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably Vinyard v. King (1984), Serna v. Colorado Department of Corrections (2006)
19 federal appellate · 5 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 Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Mullane v. Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co. · Parratt v. Taylor · Monroe v. Pape · Lugar v. Edmondson Oil Co.
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.
“an act by state officials need not comport with state law to be a deprivation of due process, Home Telephone , [ 227 U.S. 278 , 33 S.Ct. 312 , 57 L.Ed. 510 ], or to be actionable under § 1983, Monroe [, 365 U.S. 167 , 81 S.Ct. 473 , 5 L.Ed.2d 492 ]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the availability of a state post deprivation remedy does not provide [plaintiff] with due process”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[e]very person who, under color of any statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage, of any State or Territory or the District of Columbia, subjects, or causes to be subjected, any citizen of the United States or other person within the jurisdiction thereof to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured by the Constitution and laws, shall be liable to the party injured in an action at law, suit in equity, or other proper proceeding for redress.”
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.