Crocker v. Hakes’s Empirical Analysis
616 F.2d 237 · 1980
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently November 2020 · most notably Creative Environments, Inc. v. Estabrook (1982), Yale Auto Parts, Inc. v. Johnson (1985)
15 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 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. § 1982 (Civil Rights Act of 1866)
Relies on Mathews v. Eldridge · Baker v. McCollan · Griffin v. Breckenridge · Jones v. Alfred H. Mayer Co. · Martinez v. California
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he violation of a state statute does not automatically give rise to a violation of rights secured by the Constitution.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“mere ... mistakes of state law do not rise to the level of constitutional violations”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.