Heath v. Cleary’s Empirical Analysis
708 F.2d 1376 · 1983
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently June 2017 · most notably Wyatt v. Terhune (2003), United States v. Aguon (1988)
14 federal appellate · 3 district ·
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 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 1738 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Allen v. McCurry · Patsy v. Board of Regents of Fla. · Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Winters v. Lavine · Patsy v. Florida International University
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]here ... a Supreme Court decision has effectively undermined prior Ninth Circuit precedent, we are free to reexamine those earlier cases to determine their continuing validity.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“dismissal of an action on the ground of failure to exhaust administrative remedies is not on the merits.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Wyatt v. Terhune · Wyatt v. Terhune
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.