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Chin v. Bowen’s Empirical Analysis

833 F.2d 21 · 1987

Citation profile

76
cited by 76 later decisions
August 2023
most recently cited

32 federal appellate · 9 district ·

How this case has been cited

Cited by 76 later decisions — most recently August 2023 · most notably Kronisch v. United States (1998), Napier v. Thirty or More Unidentified Federal Agents, Employees or Officers (1988)

32 federal appellate · 9 district ·

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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 Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · Wilson v. Garcia · Butz v. Economou · Johnson v. Railway Express Agency, Inc. · Carlson v. Green

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 76 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “'not significantly dissimilar to claims brought under Secs. 1981 and 1983,'”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “both Bivens and section 1983 actions are designed to provide redress for constitutional violations. Though the two actions are not precisely parallel, there is a ‘general trend in the appellate courts to incorporate § 1983 law into Bivens suits.’ The same immunity standard applies to both actions. Courts of Appeals have held that section 1983 concepts of state action apply in determining whether action was taken 'under color of state law’ for Bivens purposes, and that the preemptive effect of a habeas corpus remedy is the same in prisoners’ section 1983 and Bivens suits.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “Because the two actions share the same 'practicalities of litigation,’ ..., federal courts have typically incorporated § 1983 law into Bivens actions.” Id. (citations omitted). 3 . Count 4 of Parsons's complaint, for”
    1 later decision 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.