Morris v. Powell’s Empirical Analysis
449 F.3d 682 · 2006
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 6 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 77 later decisions — most recently January 2024 · most notably Bolton v. City of Dallas (2006), Walker v. Bowersox (2008)
12 federal appellate · 6 district · 4 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Duncan v. Walker · SAUCIER v. KATZ Et Al. · Crawford-El v. Britton · Hartman v. Moore · Thaddeus-X v. Blatter
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 77 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“shows that there is no genuine dispute as to any material fact and the movant is entitled to judgment as a matter of law.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“must establish (1) a specific constitutional right, (2) the defendant's intent to retaliate against [him] for his ... exercise of that right, (3) a retaliatory adverse act, and (4) causation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Baughman v. Hickman“are so de minimis that they would not deter the ordinary person from further exercise of his rights.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Baughman v. Hickman
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.