Rymer v. Douglas County’s Empirical Analysis
764 F.2d 796 · 1985
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently May 2006 · most notably Greenbriar, Ltd. v. City of Alabaster (1989), Marshall County Board of Education v. Marshall County Gas District (1993)
15 federal appellate · 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 Parratt v. Taylor · Roe v. Wade · Hudson v. Palmer · Shapiro v. Thompson · Penn Central Transportation Co. v. New York City
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“First, it must be determined whether there has been a deprivation of a federal constitutionally protected interest, and secondly, whether the deprivation, if any, is the result of an abuse of governmental power sufficient to raise an ordinary tort to the stature of a constitutional violation.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he key inquiry in a case is the second prong of the test. Substantive due process protects a general right of an individual to be free from the abuse of governmental power.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“adds little or nothing that the taking clause does not encompass.”
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.