Leer’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 27 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 219 later decisions — most recently May 2023 · most notably Pierce v. Multnomah County (1996), Acosta-Huerta v. Estelle
7 federal appellate · 27 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
Relies on Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Edelman v. Jordan · Parratt v. Taylor · Daniels v. Williams · Quern v. Jordan
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 219 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`Issues raised in a brief which are not supported by argument are deemed abandoned.'”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“of some right, privilege, or immunity protected by the Constitution or laws of the United States.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“but must set forth specific facts showing that there is a genuine issue for trial.”
2 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.