Laird v. Ramirez’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently June 2017
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 28 U.S.C. § 1343 · 28 U.S.C. § 1391 · 28 U.S.C. § 2201 · 42 U.S.C. § 1382 (§ 1611 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 1396A (§ 1902 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1985
Relies on Edelman v. Jordan · Will v. Michigan Department of State Police · Allen v. McCurry · Preiser v. Rodriguez · Weinberger v. Salfi
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“broad remedy for violations of federally protected civil rights.” Monell v. Dept. of Soc. Serv. of City of New York, 436 U.S. 658, 685 , 98 S.Ct. 2018 , 56 L.Ed.2d 611 (1978). However, § 1983 provides no substantive rights. Chapman v. Houston Welfare Rights Org., 441 U.S. 600, 617 , 99 S.Ct. 1905, 60 .L.Ed.2d 508 (1979) (emphasis added).”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.