Gates v. Spinks’s Empirical Analysis
771 F.2d 916 · 1985
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 7 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2001 · most notably Owens v. Okure (1989), Meade v. Grubbs (1988)
30 federal appellate · 7 district · 1 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)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Wilson v. Garcia · Johnson v. Railway Express Agency, Inc. · Board of Regents of Univ. of State of NY v. Tomanio · Burnett v. Grattan · Garcia v. Wilson
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.
“[m]ost 1983 actions are predicated on intentional rather than negligent acts. Also ... 1983 was enacted for the purpose of redressing injuries from intentional misconduct. It follows that the 1983 action is more analogous to intentional torts governed by ... Miss.Code Ann. 15-1-35.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“assault, assault and battery, maiming, false imprisonment, malicious arrest, or menace, and all actions for slanderous words concerning the person or title, and for libels,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a]ll actions for which no other period of limitation is prescribed.”
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.