Harrison v. Michigan’s Empirical Analysis
722 F.3d 768 · 2013
Citation profile
1 district ·
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1915 · 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1997E
Relies on Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · Heck v. Humphrey · Pennhurst State School and Hospital v. Halderman · Quern v. Jordan · Spencer v. Kemna
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Because Justice Souter joined both the Court’s opinion that Spencer's habeas claim was moot and the judgment affirming the district court’s decision to that effect, the question he raised about whether Spencer could nevertheless maintain a § 1983 action for damages was not only unnecessary to the holding of the case but could also be described as purely hypothetical. At this point, however, we are bound by Powers ... in which the panel chose to treat the Souter concurrence as establishing a rule of law, rather than dictum.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
How this case has been treated — in progress
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