Tatum v. Morton’s Empirical Analysis
562 F.2d 1279 · 1977
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 7 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably Hobson v. Wilson (1984), Carter v. District of Columbia (1986)
28 federal appellate · 7 district · 7 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
Relies on Wood v. Strickland · Jones v. Illinois ex rel. Electoral Board · Sullivan v. Murphy · Whirl v. Kern · Union Bank of Los Angeles v. Nolan
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]n cases involving constitutional rights, compensation "should not be approached in a niggardly spirit. It is in the public interest that there be a reasonably spacious approach to a fair compensatory award for denial or curtailment of the right...." Specifying such damages will always be difficult, but they must be at least "an amount which will assure (the plaintiff) that (personal) rights are not lightly to be disregarded and that they can be truly vindicated in the courts."”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[P]laintiffs participated in a peaceful Quaker vigil of prayer on the White House sidewalk. The purpose of the vigil was `to hold Richard Nixon in the light' in the hope that the government's war policies in Vietnam would thereby be altered.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“an amount which will assure (the plaintiff) that (personal) rights are not lightly to be disregarded and that they can be truly vindicated in the courts.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.