Majors v. Engelbrecht’s Empirical Analysis
149 F.3d 709 · 1998
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently November 2018 · most notably Gilbertson v. Albright (2004), Pavey v. Conley (2008)
29 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Younger v. Harris · Patsy v. Board of Regents of Fla. · Middlesex County Ethics Committee v. Garden State Bar Ass'n · Huffman v. Pursue, Ltd. · New Orleans Public Service, Inc. v. Council of City of New Orleans
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Thomas is unpersuasive because it was based on the distinction between administrative enforcement proceedings and civil enforcement proceedings of the Huffman variety, a distinction that is immaterial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.