Rivera v. La Porte’s Empirical Analysis
896 F.2d 691 · 1990
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 5 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently March 2022 · most notably Pitchell v. Callan (1994), Bonenberger v. Plymouth Township (1997)
11 federal appellate · 5 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 Hormel v. Helvering · Jizmejian v. United States · Agency Holding Corp. v. Malley-Duff & Associates, Inc. · Bailey v. Butcher · Agency Holding Corp. v. Malley-Duff & Associates, Inc.
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Jurors may have innumerable reasons for not returning verdicts on some counts, including their view, entirely understandable in this case, that by returning verdicts in plaintiff’s favor ... and awarding damages, they had sufficiently discharged their fact-finding responsibilities ... If that was their view, they were correct.”
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.