Koch v. Mirza’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently March 2018
3 district ·
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 28 U.S.C. § 636 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1985 · 42 U.S.C. § 1986 · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Conley v. Gibson · Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Scheuer v. Rhodes · Mt. Healthy City School District Board of Education v. Doyle · Pickering v. Board of Education of Township High School District 205 Will County Illinois
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[p]rinciples of contribution and indemnity are not of assistance to federal civil rights plaintiffs in pursuing their claims, and may inject issues into the litigation which could interfere with the prompt and orderly trial of such cases.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]here is no basis on which to hold, in this action, the State Defendants liable for indemnification or contribution under § 1401 of the N.Y. Civil Practice Laws & Rules, and the cross-claims alleging such liability should be dismissed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[C]ommon law or statutory indemnity and contribution principles serve different interests than the constitutional values sought to be vindicated in a § 1983 action.”
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.