Farr v. Gruber’s Empirical Analysis
950 F.2d 399 · 1991
Citation profile
13 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Elrod v. Burns · Wayte v. United States · Bankers Trust Co. v. Mallis · 90 Wis. 2d 97 - Charolais Breeding Ranches, Ltd. v. FPC Securities Corp. · Visser v. Packer Engineering Associates, 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[p]ersonal enemies are political ones too . . . . A personal falling out will not long endure without political consequences.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the law of privilege in Wisconsin is less than clear.”
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.