Berlanti v. Bodman’s Empirical Analysis
780 F.2d 296 · 1985
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently November 2015 · most notably Sample v. Diecks (1989), Brown v. Trench (1986)
10 federal appellate · 4 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)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1985
Relies on Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Mathews v. Eldridge · Cleveland Board of Education v. Loudermill · Parratt v. Taylor · Hudson v. Palmer
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“as a prison guard's negligent loss of property, as in Parratt v. Taylor, nor with other unpredictable acts, such as a police officer's action in making an arrest with a cocked pistol contrary to his training and the established state procedures, see Wilson v. Beebe, 770 F.2d 578, 584 (6th Cir.1985) (in banc), to which the Parratt holding would apply. 19 The district court reasoned that the debarment of Berlanti was an unauthorized act because”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Berlanti v. Bodman“Hicks v. Feeney, 770 F.2d at 378 . Katz' affidavit adequately establishes that the alleged deprivation in this case occurred as a matter of custom or usage. See also Gregory v. Town of Pittsfield, --- U.S. ----, 105 S.Ct. 1380, 1382 , 84 L.Ed.2d 399 (1985) (O'Connor, J. for three Justices dissenting from denial of a petition for writ of certiorari) (Parratt inapplicable where deprivations”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Berlanti v. Bodman“the wage rate paid by virtue of collective bargaining agreements by employers employing a majority of workmen of that craft or trade subject to collective bargaining agreements, in the locality in which the public work is done.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Berlanti v. Bodman
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.