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740 F.2d 329 · 1984

Citation profile

90
cited by 90 later decisions
2
cited 2 times by the Supreme Court
2
states following
July 2021
most recently cited

48 federal appellate · 13 district · 3 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 90 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2021 · most notably Zinermon v. Burch (1990), Baker v. Putnal (1996)

48 federal appellate · 13 district · 3 state decisions

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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 · Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · Wolff v. McDonnell · Bell v. Wolfish · Parratt v. Taylor

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

  1. “Every person who, under color of any statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage, of any State . . . subjects, or causes to be subjected, any citizen of the United States . . . to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured by the Constitution and laws, shall be liable to the party injured in an action at law. . . .”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
    e.g. Texas v. New Mexico · Augustine v. Doe
  2. “At such a point, procedural due process shades into substantive due process, and Parratt becomes inapplicable.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
    e.g. Delahoussaye v. Seale · Voutour v. Vitale
  3. “the eighth amendment protects only those who have been convicted of a crime”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Jamieson v. Shaw · Jamieson v. Shaw

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.