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Bernstein v. Menard’s Empirical Analysis

728 F.2d 252 · 1984

Citation profile

33
cited by 33 later decisions
2
states following
May 1997
most recently cited

15 federal appellate · 4 state decisions

Relationships

Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))

Relies on Coopers & Lybrand v. Livesay · Christiansburg Garment Co. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission · White v. New Hampshire Department of Employment Security · Barber v. Kimbrell'S, Inc. · West v. Keve W

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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “); Anderson v. Morris, 658 F.2d 246 , 248 (4th Cir.1981) (holding that”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “leaving nothing to be done except the execution of the judgment.”
    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.