John R. Hansen v. Raymond W. May’s Empirical Analysis
502 F.2d 728 · 1974
Citation profile
35 federal appellate · 6 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2001 · most notably Hudson v. Palmer (1984), Bonner v. Coughlin (1976)
35 federal appellate · 6 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 Haines v. Kerner · Lynch v. Household Finance Corp. · WILWORDING Et Al. v. SWENSON, WARDEN · Johnson v. United States · San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[d]espite the labeling of his complaint, he was ... entitled to have his action treated as a claim for relief under the Civil Rights Act.”
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.