Hamilton v. Morial’s Empirical Analysis
644 F.2d 351 · 1981
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2007
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 Allied Chemical Corporation v. Daiflon Inc · La Buy v. Howes Leather Co. · Bauman v. United States District Court · New York Feed Co. v. Leary · Koehring Co. v. Hyde Construction Co.
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“or in which a future action may be filed seeking to alleviate crowded conditions in the [state penitentiary], or any prison or jail operated or maintained by a political subdivision of the [state that] may be affected directly or indirectly by an order ... limiting inmate population,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“a writ of supervisory mandamus to stay further proceedings in federal district courts within the State ... dealing with interrelated issues of unconstitutional overcrowding in the state penitentiary, parish prisons, and parish and city jails.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The Supreme Court and all courts established by Act of Congress may issue all writs necessary or appropriate in aid of their respective jurisdictions and agreeable to the usages and principles of law.”
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.