Miller v. Misfud’s Empirical Analysis
762 F.2d 45 · 1985
Citation profile
7 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently June 2010
7 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Fay v. Noia · Coughlin Et Al. v. Stachulak · United States ex rel. Stachulak v. Coughlin
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]o delay an appeal from an order granting or denying [habeas] relief pending disposition of another [unrelated] claim, ... conflicts with the emphasis on prompt decision.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.