Serpas v. Schmidt’s Empirical Analysis
827 F.2d 23 · 1987
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently August 2011 · most notably United States v. Leary (1988), V-1 Oil Company v. State of Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality (1990)
17 federal appellate · 5 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 Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Katz v. United States · Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · Ex Parte: Edward T Young · Pennhurst State School and Hospital v. Halderman
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“dormitory rooms must be considered the backstretchers' `homes' for Fourth Amendment purposes”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“no evidence that the backstretchers conduct any of their business in the rooms.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“the office, horse race track, facilities and other places of business,”
3 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.