Augustine v. Doe’s Empirical Analysis
740 F.2d 322 · 1984
Citation profile
86 federal appellate · 5 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 160 later decisions — most recently July 2024 · most notably Wilson v. Beebe (1985), Voutour v. Vitale (1985)
86 federal appellate · 5 district · 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))
Relies on Mathews v. Eldridge · Estelle v. Gamble · Payton v. New York · Parratt v. Taylor · Monroe v. Pape
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 160 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Parratt v. Taylor is not a magic wand that can make any section 1983 action resembling a tort suit disappear into thin air.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hinshaw v. Doffer · Miller v. Kunze“[W]hen a plaintiff alleges that state action has violated an independent substantive right, he asserts that the action is unconstitutional. If so, his rights are violated no matter what process precedes, accompanies, or follows the unconstitutional action.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“(1) deprived plaintiff of rights secured by the constitution or laws of the United States, (2) while acting under color of state law, and (3) caused injury by the deprivation.”
4 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.