Phillips v. Girdich’s Empirical Analysis
408 F.3d 124 · 2005
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 16 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 99 later decisions — most recently March 2021 · most notably Triestman v. Federal Bureau of Prisons (2006), Patane v. Clark (2007)
6 federal appellate · 16 district · 1 state decisions
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 Conley v. Gibson · Haines v. Kerner · Hishon v. King & Spalding · Swierkiewicz v. Sorema N. A. · Leatherman v. Tarrant County Narcotics Intelligence and Coordination Unit
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 99 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In other words, '[t]o prove a violation of the Equal Protection Clause ... a plaintiff must demonstrate that he was treated differently than others similarly situated as a result of intentional or purposeful discrimination.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“must demonstrate that he was treated differently than others similarly situated as a result of intentional or purposeful discrimination.... He must also show that the disparity in treatment cannot survive the appropriate level of scrutiny, which, in a prison setting, means that [a plaintiff] must demonstrate that his treatment was not “reasonably related to [any] legitimate penological interests.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Holland v. Taylor“pro se litigants ... cannot be expected to know all of the legal theories on which they might ultimately recover. It is enough that they allege that they were injured, and that their allegations can conceivably give rise to a viable claim.”
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.