Harris v. Peabody’s Empirical Analysis
611 F.2d 543 · 1980
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently October 2021
11 federal appellate · 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
Relies on Flast v. Cohen · Sosna v. Iowa · Franks v. Bowman Transportation Co. · Boggs v. Alto Trailer Sales, Inc.
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whether [plaintiff with moot claims] may continue to represent a class depends upon the facts of the given case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cohen v. Walsh“[t]he stage at which the individual resolution occurs and the extent of the resolution.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Reed v. Bowen“dismissed as to plaintiff, Brenda Harris, but not (as to) the class.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Harris v. Peabody
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.