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773 F.2d 1032 · 1985

Citation profile

104
cited by 104 later decisions
3
states following
August 2014
most recently cited

70 federal appellate · 8 district · 4 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 104 later decisions — most recently August 2014 · most notably Soranno's Gasco, Inc. v. Morgan (1989), Smith v. City of Fontana (1987)

70 federal appellate · 8 district · 4 state decisions

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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. § 1738 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))

Relies on Parratt v. Taylor · Goldberg v. Kelly · Allen v. McCurry · Hudson v. Palmer · Migra v. Warren City School District Board of Education

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 104 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “deliberate, considered, planned or prescribed conduct by state officials”
    9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Sinaloa Lake Owners Ass'n v. City of Simi Valley · Thomas v. Rg Godbehere
  2. “Because Arizona has established, by statute, a right of inmates to compensation for work performed for private parties, it cannot deny [the inmate] that right after he has earned the wages, without affording him due process of the law.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Brooks v. George County · Brooks v. George County
  3. “in which the state administrative machinery did not and could not have learned of the deprivation until after it had occurred.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Sandra J. Knudson v. City of Ellensburg, Lawrence M. Loveless and Jane Doe Loveless, and the Marital Community Composed Thereof · Soranno's Gasco, Inc. v. Morgan

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.