Hart v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
720 F.2d 1436 · 1983
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently October 2015 · most notably Hunter v. Allis-Chalmers Corp. (1986), Losch v. Borough of Parkesburg (1984)
21 federal appellate · 4 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 28 U.S.C. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005) · 28 U.S.C. § 1343 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Fuentes v. Shevin · Smith v. Wade · Maine v. Thiboutot · Johnson v. Georgia Highway Express, Inc.
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is afforded wide latitude in awarding damages, and its decision will not be set aside unless the award is clearly inappropriate.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Dennis v. Warren“need only consider the fact that a case was taken on a contingent basis.”
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.