Sherman v. Babbitt’s Empirical Analysis
772 F.2d 1476 · 1985
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently March 2002
8 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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 United Mine Workers of America v. Gibbs · Pierson v. Ray · Stump v. Sparkman · Hughes v. Rowe · Fisher v. United States
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The statute does not compel Sherman to produce an insurance certificate but gives him the choice to comply or to refuse and face the attendant penalties.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“A court has discretion to award attorney's fees to the prevailing defendant in a civil rights suit if the action is groundless or without foundation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Judges are immune from civil liability in section 1983 actions for acts performed in their judicial capacities.”
1 later decision 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.