Bird v. Summit County’s Empirical Analysis
730 F.2d 442 · 1984
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently January 2016 · most notably State v. Hamilton (1996), Wanger v. Ga Gray Company (1989)
27 federal appellate · 5 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)) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 701 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on Paul v. Davis · Screws v. United States · Flagg Brothers Inc v. Brooks J Lefkowitz · Commissioner v. Estate of Bosch · United States v. Schnitzer
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“rule of this circuit that if a plaintiff has not stated a federal claim, his pendent state law claims should be dismissed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“s] record, a failure to completely comply with the expungement order presents only a question of [state] law.”
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.