Acevedo v. Surles’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently March 2013
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 Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Mathews v. Eldridge · Mt. Healthy City School District Board of Education v. Doyle · Cleveland Board of Education v. Loudermill
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The State’s policy to bill-in-full all OMH patients or ex-patients who sue the State violates plaintiffs’ First Amendment right of access to the courts and Fourteenth Amendment right to equal protection. The State’s policy of using a set-off, without any predeprivation hearing, to reduce any award that a patient or ex-patient may receive against the State violates plaintiffs’ Fourteenth Amendment right to due process.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Brown v. Stone
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.