Stevenson v. Koskey’s Empirical Analysis
877 F.2d 1435 · 1989
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 8 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently April 2017 · most notably Kwai Fun Wong v. United States (2004), Caballero v. City of Concord (1992)
30 federal appellate · 8 district · 1 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))
Relies on Wolff v. McDonnell · Parratt v. Taylor · City of Canton v. Harris · Daniels v. Williams · Paul v. Davis
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Every person who, under color of any statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage ... subjects or causes to be subjected, any citizen of the United States or other person within the jurisdiction thereof to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured by the Constitution and laws, shall be liable to the party injured....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. HARRY A. v. Duncan“The requisite causal connection can be established ... also by setting in motion a series of acts by others which the actor knows or reasonably should know would cause others to inflict the constitutional injury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“participate[s] in the affirmative acts of another which, acting concurrently, results in the plaintiff being deprived of his federally protected rights,” or”
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.