Harris v. Pernsley’s Empirical Analysis
758 F.2d 83 · 1985
Citation profile
10 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2002
10 federal appellate ·
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
Relies on Pennhurst State School and Hospital v. Halderman · Youngberg v. Romeo Ex Rel. Romeo · Williams v. Red Bank Board of Education · Harris v. Pernsley · JACKSON v. Hendrick
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“I do not believe that Supreme Court teachings, comity, or reason support a federal court's intrusion into a state's administration of its prison system when the state courts have been, and presently are, exercising supervision over these institutions and are doing so in accordance with both state and federal constitutional requirements.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Pernsley v. Harris
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.