Russell v. Harrison’s Empirical Analysis
736 F.2d 283 · 1984
Citation profile
40 federal appellate · 1 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 82 later decisions — most recently January 2018 · most notably Galindo v. Precision American Corp. (1985), Schaper v. City of Huntsville (1987)
40 federal appellate · 1 district · 8 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. § 1981 (Civil Rights Act of 1866) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000D
Relies on Conley v. Gibson · Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Bishop v. Wood · Carey v. Piphus · California State Board of Equalization v. Western Marina Corp.
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 82 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“no genuine issue as to any material fact,”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the right to respond in writing ... and to respond orally before the official charged with the responsibility of making the termination decision.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) written notice of the reasons for termination and (2) an effective opportunity to rebut those reasons,”
2 later decisions 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.