Barren v. Harrington’s Empirical Analysis
152 F.3d 1193 · 1998
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 13 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 629 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably Max Lopez Jr v. Ga Smith Larry Loo a Acevedo Patterson 4a-2r (2000), Lee v. City of Los Angeles (2001)
17 federal appellate · 13 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 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 1915 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Washington v. Davis · Linda R. S. v. Richard D. · McGore v. Wrigglesworth · Sischo-Nownejad v. Merced Community College District
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 629 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To state a claim under 42 U.S.C. S 1983 for a violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment a plaintiff must show that the defendants acted with an intent or purpose to discriminate against the plaintiff based upon membership in a protected class.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“parallels the language of Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(b)(6).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[l]iability under S 1983 must be based on the personal involvement of the defendant”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.