Ferrer v. Zayas’s Empirical Analysis
914 F.2d 309 · 1990
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 12 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently December 2011 · most notably Acevedo-Diaz v. Aponte (1993), Pontarelli v. Stone (1991)
19 federal appellate · 12 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 Mt. Healthy City School District Board of Education v. Doyle · Elrod v. Burns · Village of Arlington Heights v. Metropolitan Housing Development Corp. · Branti v. Finkel · City of Newport v. Fact Concerts, 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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the plaintiff is not entitled to inferences based on speculation and conjecture.”
4 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.