Farrar v. Cain’s Empirical Analysis
756 F.2d 1148 · 1985
Citation profile
47 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2022 · most notably Farrar v. Hobby (1992), Floyd v. Laws (1991)
47 federal appellate · 1 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 Mt. Healthy City School District Board of Education v. Doyle · Carey v. Piphus · Calder v. United States · Familias Unidas v. Briscoe · Whiting v. Jackson State University
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Under § 1983 conspiracy can furnish the conceptual spring for imputing liability from one to another____ A conspiracy may also be used to furnish the requisite state action____ Yet it remains necessary to prove an actual deprivation of a constitutional right; a conspiracy to deprive is insufficient____ Here [the plaintiff] has failed to show any such deprivation. Without a deprivation of a constitutional right or privilege, [the defendant] has no liability under § 1983.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[n]o party may assign as error the giving or the failure to give an instruction unless he objects thereto before the jury retires to consider its verdict, stating distinctly the matter to which he objects and the grounds of his objection.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[f]ailure to object to the jury charge in the trial court precludes review on appeal unless the error is so fundamental as to result in a miscarriage of justice.”
2 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.