Harmon v. Berry’s Empirical Analysis
728 F.2d 1407 · 1984
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably Miller v. Leathers (1990), Dean v. Barber (1992)
21 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. § 1915 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Conley v. Gibson · Haines v. Kerner · Bonner v. City of Prichard · Starnes v. Penrod Drilling Co. · Csaky v. Hornblower & Weeks-Hemphill, Noyes, 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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'a complaint should not be dismissed for failure to state a claim unless it appears beyond doubt that the plaintiff can prove no set of facts in support of his claim which would entitle him to relief.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is settled law that the allegations of [a pro se complaint filed by a state prisoner], 'however inartfully pleaded,' are held to 'less stringent standards than formal pleadings drafted by lawyers.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“labelled him [plaintiff] a snitch and are exposing him to inmate retaliation”
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.