Cowans v. Warren’s Empirical Analysis
150 F.3d 910 · 1998
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently July 2016
4 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 Goff v. Burton · Sprouse v. Babcock · Henderson v. Baird · Orebaugh v. Caspari · Earnest v. Courtney
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“where an inmate has violated an actual prison rule, no retaliation claim can be stated.”
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.