Fulford v. Klein’s Empirical Analysis
529 F.2d 377 · 1976
Citation profile
98 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 138 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2006 · most notably Heck v. Humphrey (1994), Singleton v. City of New York (1980)
98 federal appellate · 3 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. § 2254 (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 Brady v. State of Maryland · Younger v. Harris · Wolff v. McDonnell · Monroe v. Pape · Fay v. Noia
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 138 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The proper rubric for a particular cause of action ought not to be determined 'solely on the basis of the relief sought, i.e., actions for money damages may go forward while actions for injunctive relief from incarceration may not.'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“habeas corpus is the exclusive initial cause of action where the basis of the claim goes to the constitutionality of the state court conviction.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“properly before the District Court and required determination of the validity of the procedures employed for imposing sanctions, including loss of good time,”
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.