Yeager v. City of McGregor’s Empirical Analysis
980 F.2d 337 · 1993
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2018 · most notably Groman v. Township of Manalapan (1995), Mark v. Borough of Hatboro (1995)
14 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 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
Relies on Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Carey v. Piphus · Lugar v. Edmondson Oil Co. · City of St. Louis v. Praprotnik · Jackson v. Metropolitan Edison Co.
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“history, tradition and local law surrounding volunteer fire departments”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“test. When the question is whether the state can delegate a responsibility and thereby avoid the strictures of the Fourteenth Amendment, it is illogical to view the delegation of that very responsibility as evidence that the responsibility can be delegated. 12 In that case, the Court of Appeals declined to decide whether such a theory is viable 13 Nor, for the reasons discussed above, and discussed below in our”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“convinced, after an independent review of the record that there is no genuine issue of material fact and that the moving party is entitled to a judgment as a matter of law.”
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.