Harris v. Pirch’s Empirical Analysis
677 F.2d 681 · 1982
Citation profile
61 federal appellate · 5 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 111 later decisions — most recently July 2021 · most notably Gooden v. Howard County (1992), Saldana v. Garza (1982)
61 federal appellate · 5 district · 6 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)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Scheuer v. Rhodes · Pierson v. Ray · Rizzo v. Goode · Gomez v. Toledo
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 111 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a causal connection between the misconduct complained of and the official sued.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“failed to meet [his] burden as to an essential element of the cause of action.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“when a court evaluates police conduct relating to an arrest, its guideline is good faith and probable cause.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. No. 98-3389
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.