Mertik v. Blalock’s Empirical Analysis
983 F.2d 1353 · 1993
Citation profile
66 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 142 later decisions — most recently September 2019 · most notably Lillard v. Shelby County Board of Education (1996), Miller v. Currie (1995)
66 federal appellate · 3 district · 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 Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. · Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Mathews v. Eldridge · Scheuer v. Rhodes
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 142 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Substantive due process claims are of two types. The first type includes claims asserting denial of a right, privilege, or immunity secured by the constitution or by federal statute other than procedural claims under “the Fourteenth Amendment simpliciter.” The other type of claim is directed at official acts which may not occur regardless of the procedural safeguards accompanying them. The test for substantive due process claims of this type is whether the conduct complained of “shocks the conscience” of the court.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Hampton v. Hobbs · McLaurin v. Cole“[i]njury to reputation, standing alone, is not a liberty interest protected by the Fourteenth Amendment.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A court may dismiss a complaint only if it is clear that no relief could be granted under any set of facts that could be proved consistent with the allegations.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.