Petta v. Rivera’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently September 2011
2 federal appellate · 6 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 Nixon v. Mr. Property Management Co. · City of Houston v. Clear Creek Basin Authority · Howlett Ex Rel. Howlett v. Rose · Emich Motors Corporation v. General Motors Corporation · Sheridan v. United States
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the evidence does not show that [plaintiff's] conduct contributed to her alleged injuries,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rico v. Flores
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.