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242 F. Supp. 2d 1167 - McCurry v. Moore’s Empirical Analysis

2002

Citation profile

6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
September 2004
most recently cited

2 federal appellate · 1 state decisions

Relationships

Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))

Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. v. Zenith Radio Corporation · Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Harlow v. Fitzgerald

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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “some confusion as to whether the constitutional right [not to be imprisoned beyond a mandated release date] is founded in due process or the Eighth Amendment,”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
  2. “[T]he question to ask is whether prison officials have been given fair warning that their actions or omissions are unconstitutional.”
    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.