Smith v. Rose’s Empirical Analysis
760 F.2d 102 · 1985
Citation profile
47 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions — most recently January 2012 · most notably Chapman v. City of Detroit (1986), Hahn v. Star Bank (1999)
47 federal appellate ·
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 Haines v. Kerner · Wolff v. McDonnell · Bell v. Wolfish · Parratt v. Taylor · Monroe v. Pape
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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A pleading will not be sufficient to state a cause of action under the Civil Rights Act if its allegations are but conclusions.”); Borenstein v. City of Philadelphia, 595 F.Supp. 853, 856 (E.D.Pa.1984) (”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.