Mayes v. Honn’s Empirical Analysis
542 F.2d 822 · 1976
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently October 1992
7 federal appellate · 1 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Imbler v. Pachtman · Pierson v. Ray · Schware v. Board of Bar Examiners of NM · Theard v. United States · Konigsberg v. State Bar of Cal.
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“not a proper civil rights action either in form or in substance and ... palpably lacking in merit”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Clulow v. Oklahoma
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.