Miles v. Beard’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
9 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on DeHart v. Horn · Balshy v. Rank · Cry, Inc. v. Mill Service, Inc. · Gossman v. Lower Chanceford Township Board of Supervisors · Fawber v. Cohen
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Although one might argue that what [Brimmeier] really wants is a [declaration] rather than money damages, he is the one who included a request for money damages in his [C]omplaint. It is not our function to ignore a portion of his request for relief so that original jurisdiction can be vested in this Court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“would crowd cases involving important and unique issues from [the High Court's] allocatur docket.”
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.