Bass v. Jackson’s Empirical Analysis
790 F.2d 260 · 1986
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 7 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 103 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably Archie v. City of Racine (1988), Medina v. City & County Denver (1992)
14 federal appellate · 7 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))
Relies on Estelle v. Gamble · Haines v. Kerner · Daniels v. Williams · Hughes v. Rowe · Ratchford v. Gay Lib
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 103 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a Section 1983 plaintiff must 'allege a tangible connection between the acts of the defendant and the injuries suffered.'”
2 later decisions 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.