Sevier v. Turner’s Empirical Analysis
742 F.2d 262 · 1984
Citation profile
135 federal appellate · 2 district · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 276 later decisions — most recently July 2025 · most notably LRL Properties v. Portage Metro Housing Authority (1995), United States v. Knox (1988)
135 federal appellate · 2 district · 17 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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. § 2201 · 28 U.S.C. § 2241 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 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))
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Conley v. Gibson · Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · Johnson v. Zerbst · Edwards v. Arizona
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 276 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A plaintiff has reason to know of his injury when he should have discovered it through the exercise of reasonable diligence.”
30 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he federal courts, absent “extraordinary circumstances,” must abstain from granting declaratory or injunctive relief because doing so would involve unduly intrusive interference with, and monitoring of, the day-to-day conduct of state hearings and trials.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“relevant question ... is whether the court in fact elects to incarcerate the defendant”
3 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.