King v. Higgins’s Empirical Analysis
702 F.2d 18 · 1983
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 11 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently March 2020 · most notably Blackburn v. Snow (1985), Poe v. Leonard (2002)
21 federal appellate · 11 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. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Wolff v. McDonnell · Goldberg v. Kelly · Carey v. Piphus · Hewitt v. Helms
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Defendant confuses a lack of knowledge of the failure of other officials to ensure plaintiffs constitutional rights with a lack of duty on his part to assure that the proceedings below were constitutionally sound. As the official designated to hear prisoners’ appeals, he had a duty to conduct at least a minimal investigation to determine whether there was any merit to plaintiffs appeal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Poe v. Leonard“can ... reasonably be attributed to the deprivation of due process.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hc Hewett v. Jarrard
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.