Morales v. Cadena’s Empirical Analysis
825 F.2d 1095 · 1987
Citation profile
11 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently February 2011 · most notably North v. Madison Area Ass'n for Retarded Citizens-Developmental Centers Corp. (1988), McKnight v. General Motors Corp. (1992)
11 federal appellate ·
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 Mt. Healthy City School District Board of Education v. Doyle · Daniels v. Williams · Michelson v. United States · La Montagne v. American Convenience Products, Inc. · Wolf-Lillie v. Sonquist
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Ultimately, we must determine whether there was substantial evidence to support the jury verdict.”
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.