Fuller v. Marx’s Empirical Analysis
724 F.2d 717 · 1984
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 6 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2014 · most notably Mayle v. Felix (2005), Smialek v. Begay (1986)
10 federal appellate · 6 district · 9 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 In re Kauffman Mutual Fund Actions · Clipper Exxpress v. Rocky Mountain Motor Tariff Bureau · MBM Co., Inc. v. Counce · Jerome Rosenberg v. Raymond v. Martin · Santana v. Holiday Inns, Inc.
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]ny quasi-property rights [the widow] had in her husband's internal organs, if protected by the Constitution, were also protected by [an] Arkansas statute”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Under Arkansas law, the next of kin does have a quasi-property right in a dead body.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.