Deck v. Leftridge’s Empirical Analysis
771 F.2d 1168 · 1985
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 5 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently December 2015 · most notably Myers v. Morris (1987), Madewell v. Roberts (1990)
7 federal appellate · 5 district · 3 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 Polk County v. Dodson · Kirchberg v. Feenstra · Tower v. Glover · White v. Bloom · Smith v. Bacon
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“allegations of a conspiracy must be pleaded with sufficient specificity and factual support to suggest a `meeting of the minds.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he factual basis need not be extensive, but it must be enough to avoid a finding that the suit is frivolous. [Citation omitted.] (Plaintiffs) must at least allege that “the defendants had directed themselves toward an unconstitutional action by virtue of a mutual understanding,” and provide some facts “suggesting such a ‘meeting of the minds.’ ” [Citation omitted.]”
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.