Bockes v. Fields’s Empirical Analysis
999 F.2d 788 · 1993
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2018 · most notably Beardsley v. Webb (1994), Gray v. Laws (1995)
19 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 · Edelman v. Jordan · Hans v. State of Louisiana · Ford Motor Co. v. Department of Treasury · Spell v. McDaniel
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When the action seeks damages that would be satisfied by state funds, however, no further inquiry is necessary”
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.