Scott v. Churchill’s Empirical Analysis
377 F.3d 565 · 2004
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently May 2021 · most notably Westside Mothers v. Olszewski (2006), American Civil Liberties Union v. McCreary County (2010)
17 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
Relies on Mitchell v. Forsyth · Hope v. Pelzer · Arizona v. California · Thaddeus-X v. Blatter · Hubbard v. Environmental Protection Agency
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The scope of a remand is determined by examining the entire order or opinion, to determine whether and how the court of appeals intended to limit a remand.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he mere potential threat of disciplinary sanctions is sufficiently adverse action to support a claim of retaliation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Maben v. Thelen“the false issuance of a misconduct charge is unconstitutional retaliation”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Maben v. Thelen
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.