Immediato v. Rye Neck School District’s Empirical Analysis
73 F.3d 454 · 1996
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 5 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently April 2024 · most notably United States v. Rybicki (2003), Sissy Littlefield
13 federal appellate · 5 district · 14 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 Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Daniels v. Williams · Brown et al. v. Board of Education of Topeka et al. · Meyer v. State of Nebraska · Wisconsin v. Yoder
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In application, courts have consistently found the involuntary servitude standard is not so rigorous as to prohibit all forms of labor that one person is compelled to perform for the benefit of another. The Thirteenth Amendment [to the United States Constitution 5 ] does not bar labor that an individual may, at least in some sense, choose not to perform, even where the consequences of that choice are 'exceedingly bad.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Where[, however,] the claimed right is not fundamental, the governmental regulation need only be reasonably related to a legitimate state objective”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Rights are fundamental when they are implicit in the concept of ordered liberty, or deeply rooted in this Nation's history and tradition.”
2 later decisions 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.