Mark v. Caldwell’s Empirical Analysis
754 F.2d 1260 · 1985
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently April 2018 · most notably Pfannstiel v. City of Marion (1990), Errol Lynch v. Joseph S. Cannatella, Jr. (1987)
20 federal appellate · 2 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))
Relies on Shillingford v. Holmes
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“slapped [an arrestee] several times with his open hand”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“To merit redress under [section 1983], we held, the officer's conduct must have been such that it 'caused severe injuries, was grossly disproportionate to the need for action under the circumstances, and was inspired by malice.' Other batteries are the business of state law”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Martin v. Thomas“section 1983 does not grant a cause of action for every injury wrongfully inflicted by a state officer”
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.