Hazen v. Pasley’s Empirical Analysis
768 F.2d 226 · 1985
Citation profile
32 federal appellate · 6 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably Faulkner v. Arkansas Children's Hospital (2002), Anderson v. Beatrice Foods Co. (1990)
32 federal appellate · 6 district · 4 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))
Relies on Voegeli v. Lewis · Fox v. Studebaker-Worthington, Inc. · Phil Crowley Steel Corp. v. Macomber, Inc. · Red Lobster Inns of America, Inc. v. Lawyers Title Insurance
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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“what the highest state court would probably hold were it called upon to decide the issue.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“and in an appropriate case we must reverse if we find that the district court's interpretation of state law is”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he court of appeals will not reverse the district court in the absence of a clear abuse of discretion.”
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.