Silverman v. Barry’s Empirical Analysis
845 F.2d 1072 · 1988
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 25 district · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 101 later decisions — most recently August 2022 · most notably Elbaor v. Smith (1993), Pearson v. City of Grand Blanc (1992)
30 federal appellate · 25 district · 22 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)) · 45 U.S.C. § 231 (Railroad Retirement Act of 1974)
Relies on Payton v. New York · Baker v. Carr · Linkletter v. Walker · Chevron Oil Co. v. Huson · Pullman-Standard v. Swint
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 101 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“substantial infringement of state law prompted by personal or group animus, or a deliberate flouting of the law....”
17 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[1] the underlying exercise of authority [is] a reasonable regulation within the power of the government .... and [2] the legislature's restriction [is] in the form of a general prohibition, and the delegation [is] in the form of permitting private citizens to waive the protection of that prohibition.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a legislative delegation to private citizens”
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.