Michael Malik Allah Minister’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
7 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently September 2024 · most notably 580 F. Supp. 2d 429 - Hayduk v. City of Johnstown (2008), 585 F. Supp. 2d 455 - Nash v. McGinnis (2008)
7 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
Relies on Haines v. Kerner · Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc. · Carey v. Piphus · Wood v. Strickland · Smith v. Wade
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Cjertain absolute constitutional rights may be vindicated by an award of nominal damages in the absence of any showing of injury warranting compensatory damages.... [Federal courts have consistently awarded nominal damages for violations of First Amendment rights.” Id. (internal citations omitted). Moreover, although plaintiff does not expressly seek nominal damages in his Complaint, the Third Circuit has held that”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“damages are available under [ § 1983 ] for actions found ... to have been violative of ... constitutional rights and to have caused compensable injury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“are governed by general tort-law compensation theory.”
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.