Rodriguez v. Comas’s Empirical Analysis
888 F.2d 899 · 1989
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 20 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently May 2010 · most notably Thomas v. Roach (1999), Hegarty v. Somerset County (1995)
25 federal appellate · 20 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. § 1343 · 28 U.S.C. § 1346 (Federal Tort Claims Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 1441 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Harlow v. Fitzgerald · United Mine Workers of America v. Gibbs · Anderson v. Creighton · Mitchell v. Forsyth
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“any civil action authorized by law to be commenced by any person____ [t]o redress the deprivation, under color of any State law, statute, ordinance, regulation, custom or usage, of any right, privilege or immunity secured by the Constitution[.]”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Marcellino Ortega, Rafael Rojas, Raul Rojas v. C.J. Schramm, Indiv. & as Deputy Sheriff of Glades Co., Alex Green, Indiv. & as Deputy Sheriff of Glades Co., Marcellino Ortega, Rafael Rojas, Raul Rojas v. Russell Henderson--Indiv. & as Sheriff of Glades Co., Bobby Burkett--As Director of Florida Hwy. Patrol, Jesse M. Evans,--Indiv. & as Patrolman of Fl. Hwy Patrol · Alber v. Illinois Department of Mental Health & Developmental Disabilities“In contrast to the very limited scope of jurisdiction found on the face of [the FTCA], the jurisdictional statute here is open-ended--applying to any person and over any civil action.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Marcellino Ortega, Rafael Rojas, Raul Rojas v. C.J. Schramm, Indiv. & as Deputy Sheriff of Glades Co., Alex Green, Indiv. & as Deputy Sheriff of Glades Co., Marcellino Ortega, Rafael Rojas, Raul Rojas v. Russell Henderson--Indiv. & as Sheriff of Glades Co., Bobby Burkett--As Director of Florida Hwy. Patrol, Jesse M. Evans,--Indiv. & as Patrolman of Fl. Hwy Patrol · Ortega v. Cj Schramm“track[ed] the concerns that govern section 1983,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Marcellino Ortega, Rafael Rojas, Raul Rojas v. C.J. Schramm, Indiv. & as Deputy Sheriff of Glades Co., Alex Green, Indiv. & as Deputy Sheriff of Glades Co., Marcellino Ortega, Rafael Rojas, Raul Rojas v. Russell Henderson--Indiv. & as Sheriff of Glades Co., Bobby Burkett--As Director of Florida Hwy. Patrol, Jesse M. Evans,--Indiv. & as Patrolman of Fl. Hwy Patrol · Ortega v. Cj Schramm
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.