Harris v. Greer’s Empirical Analysis
750 F.2d 617 · 1984
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently August 2019 · most notably Murray v. Bledsoe (2011), Jenkins v. Wood (1996)
23 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 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 Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Hudson v. Palmer · Lee v. Washington · Wolf-Lillie v. Sonquist · United States v. Silverstein
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“there is no concept of strict supervisor liability under section 1983.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A policy of deliberate racial segregation of prisoners would raise serious questions under the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lisle v. Welborn
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.