Buford v. Tremayne’s Empirical Analysis
747 F.2d 445 · 1984
Citation profile
41 federal appellate · 13 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 133 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably 619 F. Supp. 162 - United States v. Conservation Chemical Co. (1985), Nieves v. McSweeney (2001)
41 federal appellate · 13 district · 1 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. § 1988
Relies on United Mine Workers of America v. Gibbs · Hensley v. Eckerhart · Christiansburg Garment Co. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission · Johnson v. Railway Express Agency, Inc. · Fiswick v. United States
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 133 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“should not be granted unless the moving party has established the right to a judgment with such clarity as to leave no room for controversy.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the statute of limitations begins to run from the occurrence of the last overt act resulting in damage to the plaintiff,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the benefit of every doubt and every favorable inference that may be drawn from the evidence.”
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.