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938 F.2d 693 · 1991

Citation profile

45
cited by 45 later decisions
1
states following
February 2017
most recently cited

23 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently February 2017 · most notably Martinez v. Colon (1995), Lillard v. Shelby County Board of Education (1996)

23 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions

310199120002010decided

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 Katz v. United States · Graham v. Connor · Chimel v. California · Parratt v. Taylor · Monroe v. Pape

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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “Applying the 'shock the conscience’ test in an area other than excessive force,” it has been said,”
    6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Newell v. Brown · Mansfield Apartment Owners Ass'n v. City of Mansfield
  2. “[A] government official's discretionary abuse of power which goes beyond the scope of his or her authority will usually have been performed under color of state law for purposes of section 1983 liability.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
    e.g. Thomas · Kernats v. O'Sullivan
  3. “[i]t is firmly established that a defendant in a Sec. 1983 suit acts under color of state law when he abuses the position given to him by the State.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. 801 F. Supp. 15 - Jones v. United States Drug Enforcement Administration · Kernats v. O'Sullivan

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.