Rogers v. Okin’s Empirical Analysis
738 F.2d 1 · 1984
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 24 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently February 2024 · most notably Wright v. Smith (1994), Walker v. Sumner (1994)
26 federal appellate · 24 district · 11 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. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Wolff v. McDonnell · Colorado River Water Conservation District v. United States · Monroe v. Pape · Pennhurst State School and Hospital v. Halderman · Railroad Commission v. Pullman Co.
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'rise above the floor set by the due process clause.'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In 1982, the Supreme Court avoided decision of a difficult federal constitutional question by remanding to this court, urging us to dispose of the case on state law grounds. [Mills v. Rogers,] 457 U.S. [291,] 306, 102 S.Ct. at 2452 , 73 L.Ed.2d 16 . With Pennhurst, the Court removed our power to do so. Now, two years after the Supreme Court returned this case to us in furtherance of the Court’s "settled policy” of avoiding unnecessary constitutional questions, Pennhurst requires us to face those questions. Fortunately, as will be indicated below, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court’s answers to our certified questions of state law have simplified our current task by changing the variables in the constitutional equation.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is no answer that the State has a law which if enforced would give relief. The federal remedy is supplementary to the state remedy, and the latter need not be first sought and refused before the federal one is invoked.”
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.