Cohen v. City of Philadelphia’s Empirical Analysis
736 F.2d 81 · 1984
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 14 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 96 later decisions — most recently October 2016 · most notably Brady v. Town of Colchester (1988), Bello v. Walker (1988)
34 federal appellate · 14 district · 4 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 Mullane v. Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co. · Parratt v. Taylor · Bishop v. Wood · Griffin v. Breckenridge · Goss v. Lopez
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 96 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a situation such as the present one involving a tortious loss of a prisoner's property as a result of a random and unauthorized act by a state employee ... it is not only impracticable, but impossible, to provide a meaningful hearing before the deprivation.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“that substantive mistakes by administrative bodies in applying local ordinances do not create a federal claim so long as correction is available by the state's judiciary.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'reasonable remedies to rectify a legal error by a local administrative body.'”
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.