Aulson v. Blanchard’s Empirical Analysis
83 F.3d 1 · 1996
Citation profile
71 federal appellate · 447 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 578 later decisions — most recently March 2024 · most notably Massachusetts School of Law at Andover, Inc. v. American Bar Ass'n (1998), Rogan v. Menino (1999)
71 federal appellate · 447 district · 3 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. § 1985
Relies on Foman v. Davis · Griffin v. Breckenridge · Leatherman v. Tarrant County Narcotics Intelligence and Coordination Unit · United States v. Zannino · United Brotherhood of Carpenters & Joiners of America, Local 610 v. Scott
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 578 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“bald assertions, unsupportable conclusions, periphrastic circumlocutions, and the like need not be credited”
17 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“To state a claim under § 1985(3) a plaintiff must allege the existence of (1) a conspiracy, (2) a conspiratorial purpose to deprive a person or class of persons, directly or indirectly, of the equal protection of the laws or of equal privileges and immunities under the laws, (3) an overt act in furtherance of the conspiracy, and (4) either (a) an injury to person or property, or (b) a deprivation of a constitutionally protected right or privilege.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“accepting as true all well-pleaded factual averments and indulging all reasonable inferences in the plaintiff's favor.”
11 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.