Rivera v. Green’s Empirical Analysis
775 F.2d 1381 · 1985
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 5 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently September 2011 · most notably Usher v. City of Los Angeles (1987), Gibson v. United States (1986)
24 federal appellate · 5 district · 2 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 Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Imbler v. Pachtman · Pierson v. Ray · Wilson v. Garcia · DelCostello v. International Brotherhood of Teamsters
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“for their actions in prosecuting a case against”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) whether the decision establishes a new principle of law; (2) whether retroactive application will further or retard the purposes of the rule in question; and (3) whether applying the new decision will produce substantial inequitable results.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hostler v. Groves“would advance the litigant's ability to pursue section 1983 remedies at the expense of a [disfavored] statute of limitations defense.”
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.