Lucchesi v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
1 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently February 2021
1 district · 13 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 Will v. Michigan Department of State Police · Tenney v. Brandhove · Ex parte Poresky · Supreme Court of Virginia v. Consumers Union of the United States, Inc. · Eastland v. United States Servicemen's Fund
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[IA] a state officer may be sued in his official capacity under $1988 if, as here, a plaintiff seeks only declaratory or injunctive relief and attorney fees and does not seek any damages.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Marks v. Gessler“for any Speech or Debate in either House, [senators and representatives] shall not be questioned in any other Place.”
1 later decision 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.