Sullivan v. Carrick’s Empirical Analysis
888 F.2d 1 · 1989
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 14 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently September 2023 · most notably Amsden v. Moran (1990), Febus-Rodriguez v. Betancourt-Lebron (1994)
12 federal appellate · 14 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Mitchell v. Forsyth · United States v. Harriss · Laird v. Tatum · Nixon v. Fitzgerald
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“speech was in fact chilled or intimidated.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“mere allegation, that [the plaintiff] was harmed does not amount to satisfying the causation requirement of a Section 1983 action.” Sullivan v. Carrick, 888 F.2d 1, 4 (1st Cir.1989). 9 . See also Sullivan, 888 F.2d at 3 (”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“'finding an abridgement of First Amendment rights is unfounded.'”
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.