In Re Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
24 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1986
Relies on California Motor Transport Co. v. Trucking Unlimited · Sutton v. United States · Thompson v. Virginia · Chambers v. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad · Richley v. Norris
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[rlelief pursuant to an independent action is available only in cases of unusual and exceptional cireum-stances.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Mishkin v. Young
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.