Fleming v. Harris’s Empirical Analysis
39 F.3d 905 · 1994
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 6 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably Cross v. Cleaver (1998), Rush v. Smith (1995)
14 federal appellate · 6 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Farmer v. Seiter · Dillon v. Nissan Motor Co. · Warren v. City of Lincoln · Farmland Industries, Inc. v. Morrison-Quirk Grain Corporation · United States v. King
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Under plain error review, an error not identified by a contemporaneous objection is grounds for reversal only if the error prejudices the substantial rights of a party and would result in a miscarriage of justice if left uncorrected.”
2 later decisions 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.