Tarter v. Hury’s Empirical Analysis
646 F.2d 1010 · 1981
Citation profile
44 federal appellate · 4 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 105 later decisions — most recently March 2023 · most notably Henry v. Farmer City State Bank (1986), Valdez v. City & County of Denver (1989)
44 federal appellate · 4 district · 8 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. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Younger v. Harris · Imbler v. Pachtman · Gerstein v. Pugh · Preiser v. Rodriguez · O'Shea v. Littleton
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 105 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“acts they are specifically required to do under court order or at a judge's discretion”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Because the amount of bail prescribed for each criminal defendant depends on the peculiar facts and circumstances of his case, the setting of bail requires ad hoc decisions committed to the discretion of judges.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[g]ranting and enforcing the equitable relief sought by Tarter to remedy those alleged improprieties would require the same anticipatory interference condemned in O'Shea.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Luckey III v. Harris
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.