Draper v. Coombs’s Empirical Analysis
792 F.2d 915 · 1986
Citation profile
60 federal appellate · 9 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 120 later decisions — most recently October 2023 · most notably Floyd v. Laws (1991), Trevino v. Gates (1996)
60 federal appellate · 9 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 18 U.S.C. § 3182 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · International Shoe Co. v. Washington · Mathews v. Eldridge · Scheuer v. Rhodes · Haines v. Kerner
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 120 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a violation of state law can serve as the basis of a [Sjection 1983 action `[w]here the violation of state law causes the deprivation of rights protected by the Constitution.'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A] person charged in any State with Treason, Felony or other Crime, who shall flee from Justice, and be found in another State, shall on Demand of the executive Authority of the State from which he fled, be delivered up, to be removed to the State having Jurisdiction of the Crime.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“circuits that have held that a violation of state extradition law can serve as the basis of a section 1983 action `[w]here the violation of state law causes the deprivation of rights protected by the Constitution and statutes of the United States.'”
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.