Tredwell A. Harrison and M. Gale Harrison v. William G. Brooks’s Empirical Analysis
446 F.2d 404 · 1971
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 13 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently June 1995 · most notably United Black Firefighters v. Hirst (1979), Almenares v. Wyman (1971)
24 federal appellate · 13 district · 2 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 Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · Hague v. Committee for Industrial Organization · Snowden v. Hughes · William Truax v. Mike Raich · Romano v. United States
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.
“because they do no more than allege “wrongful” conduct by the defendants. Where a state official’s judgment and discretion are of vital concern, we require a showing of purposeful discrimination or at least an allegation that his misdeeds were knowing or reckless.”
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.