Butler v. Castro’s Empirical Analysis
896 F.2d 698 · 1990
Citation profile
15 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably Pangburn v. Culbertson (1999), Kern v. City of Rochester (1996)
15 federal appellate ·
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 Parratt v. Taylor · Daniels v. Williams · Hudson v. Palmer · Hughes v. Rowe · Sullivan v. Town of Salem
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A conclusory allegation ... without evidentiary support or allegations of particularized incidents, does not state a valid claim.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A] voucher must be given to an arrestee for non-contraband property seized [and] must also give notice of the procedures to be followed to recover such property.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In passing, we note the absence of any ameliorative legislation with respect to Administrative Code [§ ] 14-140 in the more than thirteen years since the entry of the McClendon order. This would seem a matter worthy of legislative attention.”
2 later decisions 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.