Yeksigian v. Nappi’s Empirical Analysis
900 F.2d 101 · 1990
Citation profile
57 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 135 later decisions — most recently August 2020 · most notably Gibson v. City of Chicago (1990), Baxter ex rel. Baxter v. Vigo County School Corp. (1994)
57 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 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 Kentucky v. Graham · Pembaur v. City of Cincinnati · City of St. Louis v. Praprotnik · Jett v. Dallas Independent School District · United States v. Classic
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 135 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“only if the plaintiff has failed to allege any set of facts upon which relief may be granted.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[s]tate supervisory personnel who abuse their authority by 'secur[ing] without justification the arrest of an employee under their supervision' at a government facility may be considered to be acting under color of state law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“an allegation that the defendants were acting under color of law generally is construed as a suit against the defendants in their official capacities only.”
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.