Reed v. Terrell’s Empirical Analysis
759 F.2d 472 · 1985
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently August 2003
7 federal appellate · 1 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on District of Columbia Court of Appeals v. Feldman · Hagerty v. Succession of Clement · Sawyer v. Overton · Kimball v. The Florida Bar · Almon v. Sandlin
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the 'essential relief' sought by the plaintiffs is reversal of the state court award of attorneys fees against them.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“patently an attempt to collaterally attack the validity of [the state court judgment].”
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.