Mehta v. Surles’s Empirical Analysis
905 F.2d 595 · 1990
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 7 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably Salahuddin v. Goord (2006), Local Long Island Public Service Employees Umd Ila (1994)
5 federal appellate · 7 district ·
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 Cleveland Board of Education v. Loudermill · Carnegie v. United States · Loretto v. Teleprompter Manhattan CATV Corp. · Nollan v. California Coastal Commission · Jacoway v. Anderson
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a plaintiff must 'first identify a property right, second show that the state has deprived him [or her] of that right, and third show that the deprivation was effected without due process.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“When a party represented by counsel fails to argue particular points, we may consider those points waived if to do so will not result in manifest injustice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Palaimo v. Lutz
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.