City of Las Vegas Nevada v. Clark County Nevada’s Empirical Analysis
755 F.2d 697 · 1984
Citation profile
57 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 83 later decisions — most recently April 2012 · most notably Roberts v. Corrothers (1987), Fidelity Financial Corp. v. Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco (1986)
57 federal appellate · 4 district ·
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 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 28 U.S.C. § 1361 · 33 U.S.C. § 1311 · 33 U.S.C. § 1313 · 33 U.S.C. § 1365 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 5 U.S.C. § 704
Relies on Scheuer v. Rhodes · Bell v. Hood · Burford v. Sun Oil Co. · Middlesex County Sewerage Authority v. National Sea Clammers Assn. · Garber 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 83 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Plaintiffs specifically complain that certain acts or omissions by defendants constituted a violation of section 1983 by proximately causing them to be deprived of rights protected under the First, Fourth, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Robins v. Harum“A district court retains jurisdiction to enforce its judgments, including consent decrees.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Eddie Willie Taylor“We may affirm the district court 'on any basis fairly supported by the record.'”
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.