Cruz v. Root’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently April 2012
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 Allen v. McCurry · Schwartz v. Public Administrator · Smith v. Russell Sage College · Cresswell al Vs Cl Ef Ad Sa Lw Rl Sa v. Sullivan & Cromwell · Conte v. L Justice
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[O]ne who is arguably incapable of understanding the law and legal proceedings can hardly be held to have been afforded a fair hearing.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Carver v. State
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.