Macko v. Byron’s Empirical Analysis
760 F.2d 95 · 1985
Citation profile
39 federal appellate · 2 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently December 2014 · most notably Emmons v. McLaughlin (1989), White v. Frank (1988)
39 federal appellate · 2 district · 6 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 Briscoe v. W · Dennis v. Sparks · Gary Aircraft Corp. v. United States · Macko v. Bryon
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A section 1983 claim only occurs when the threats or threatened conduct result in a constitutional deprivation.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he Supreme Court ... [has] held ... that witnesses in judicial proceedings are absolutely immune from civil liability under 42 U.S.C. Sec. 1983 based on their testimony, even if they knowingly gave perjured testimony.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Grant v. Hollenbach
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.