Mitchell v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
18 F.3d 425 · 1994
Citation profile
9 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently April 2019
9 federal appellate ·
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 Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Elrod v. Burns · Branti v. Finkel · Rutan v. Republican Party of Illinois · Batson v. Kentucky
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[p]olitics should not be an active ingredient of good law enforcement.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. McCaffrey v. Chapman
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.