Harris v. Champion’s Empirical Analysis
51 F.3d 901 · 1995
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 7 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently July 2015 · most notably Horace Oxendine v. Barry Rg Kaplan (2001), Jon Femedeer v. Hl "Pete" Haun (2000)
13 federal appellate · 7 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 28 U.S.C. § 2243 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Will v. Michigan Department of State Police · City of Los Angeles v. Lyons · Preiser v. Rodriguez · O'Shea v. Littleton · West v. Atkins
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a governmental entity that is an arm of the state for Eleventh Amend-ment purposes”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The writ of habeas corpus does not act upon the prisoner who seeks relief, but upon the person who holds him in what is alleged to be unlawful custody.”
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.