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Tatum v. Houser’s Empirical Analysis

642 F.2d 253 · 1981

Citation profile

22
cited by 22 later decisions
March 1999
most recently cited

13 federal appellate ·

Relationships

Relies on Bell v. Wolfish · Carey v. Piphus · Zenith Radio Corp. v. Hazeltine Research, Inc. · Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Campbell v. Cauthron

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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “deprivations of certain constitutional rights, even without a showing of actual injury, may be vindicated, at a minimum, by making such actionable for nominal damages”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “liable for jail conditions even though he may not have had actual knowledge of them.”
    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.