Darring v. Kincheloe’s Empirical Analysis
783 F.2d 874 · 1986
Citation profile
419 federal appellate · 7 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 547 later decisions — most recently June 2023 · most notably Kruso v. International Telephone & Telegraph Corp. (1989), Jesinger v. Nevada Federal Credit Union (1994)
419 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))
Relies on Estelle v. Gamble · Younger v. Harris · Baker v. Carr · Valley Forge Christian College v. Americans United for Separation of Church and State, Inc. · Association of Data Processing Service Organizations, Inc. v. Camp
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 547 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“there is neither a 'reasonable expectation' nor 'demonstrated possibility'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“When plaintiffs `do not claim that they have ever been threatened with prosecution, that a prosecution is likely, or even that a prosecution is remotely possible,' they do not allege a dispute susceptible to resolution by a federal court.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“the challenged regulations or activities resulted in actual or threatened injury to the plaintiffs even though the activities infringed the constitutional rights of only third parties.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.