Nolan v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
521 F.3d 983 · 2008
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently March 2024
6 federal appellate · 1 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 636 · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Hewitt v. Helms · Greenholtz v. Inmates of Nebraska Penal and Correctional Complex · Village of Willowbrook v. Olech · California Department of Corrections v. Morales · Garner v. Jones
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A class-of-one plaintiff must therefore provide a specific and detailed account of the nature of the preferred treatment of the favored class, especially when the state actors exercise broad discretion to balance a number of legitimate considerations.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]dentifying the disparity in treatment is especially important in class-of-one cases.”
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.