Ammons v. Baldwin’s Empirical Analysis
705 F.2d 1445 · 1983
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently December 2008
8 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 Pierson v. Ray · Browder v. Director Department of Corrections of Illinois · Supreme Court of Virginia v. Consumers Union of the United States, Inc. · Democratic Party of the United States v. Wisconsin ex rel. La Follette · Bart v. Telford
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We inquire whether: (1) the offending action is a normal judicial function; (2) it occurred in the judge’s courtroom or chambers; (3) the controversy involved a case pending before the judge; and (4) the confrontation arose ‘directly and immediately out of a visit to the judge in his official capacity’. Brewer v. Blackwell, 692 F.2d [387] at 396 [5th Cir.1982] (citing Harper v. Merckle, 638 F.2d 848, 858 (5th Cir.1981), cert. denied, 454 U.S. 816 , 102 S.Ct. 93 , 70 L.Ed.2d 85 (1981).””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“minimal level required to invoke federal jurisdiction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Thomas v. Sams
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.