Harris v. Pernsley’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently April 2000
2 federal appellate · 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Colorado River Water Conservation District v. United States · Rhodes v. Chapman · Donaldson v. United States · Trbovich v. United Mine Workers · Carstea v. Poplar Tree Homeowners Ass'n
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“persons charged with, or convicted of, murder, forcible rape, or a crime involving the use of a gun or knife in the commission of an aggravated assault or robbery.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Harris v. Pernsley
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.