Barr v. Abrams’s Empirical Analysis
810 F.2d 358 · 1987
Citation profile
45 federal appellate · 13 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 225 later decisions — most recently March 2022 · most notably Connie Robison v. Susan R. Via and Harold Harrison (1987), Ying Jing Gan v. City of New York (1993)
45 federal appellate · 13 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))
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Younger v. Harris · Malley v. Briggs · Imbler v. Pachtman · Stump v. Sparkman
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 225 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“intimately associated with the judicial phase of the criminal process.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Anilao v. Spota · Barbera v. Smith“some specific allegations of fact indicating some deprivation of rights, instead of a litany of general conclusions that shock but have no meaning.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“acts without any colorable claim of authority.”
4 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.