Jackson v. Howell’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently October 2006
3 federal appellate · 2 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 Goldberg v. Kelly · Carey v. Piphus · Alexander v. Gardner-Denver Co. · 470 F. Supp. 449 - Shuman v. City of Philadelphia
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“has an interest in seeing that its officers do not use their official positions to solicit female complainants”); Shuman v. City of Philadelphia, 470 F.Supp. 449 , 460 (E.D.Pa.1979) (conceding”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sylvester v. Fogley
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.