Thacker v. Whitehead’s Empirical Analysis
548 F.2d 634 · 1977
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently January 2003 · most notably Summers v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance (1988), Harrington v. Vandalia-Butler Board of Education (1981)
18 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Ohio Inns, Inc. v. Nye · Oppenheimer v. Morton Hotel Corp. · 407 F. Supp. 1111 - Thacker v. Whitehead
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he motion shall be served at least 10 days before the time fixed for the hearing.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Heller v. Vallelonga
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.