Hollins v. Powell’s Empirical Analysis
773 F.2d 191 · 1985
Citation profile
51 federal appellate · 9 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 98 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably Hunter v. Allis-Chalmers Corp. (1986), Roe v. City of Waterbury (2008)
51 federal appellate · 9 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))
Relies on Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Monroe v. Pape · City of Oklahoma City v. Tuttle · Owen v. City of Independence · Smith v. Wade
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 98 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“those rare situations where we are pressed to conclude that there is a plain injustice * * *.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Glenn F. Nelson, Sam Scheidler, and James E. Maloney, Suing on Behalf of Themselves, Individually, and (Pursuant to Rule 23 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and an Order Entered September 14, 1976 by Chief Judge Hanson) on Behalf of Members of a Class Consisting of All Persons Who Owned Common Stock of General United Group, Incorporated, an Iowa Corporation, Whose Common Stock Interest Was Terminated by a Purported Merger of General United Group, Incorporated, With Another Corporation on or After May 17, 1973, and the Heirs, Successors by Operation of Law, Legal Representatives, and Assigns of Such Persons, but Excluding Persons Named as in This Civil Action No. 75-100-2, and Also Excluding Those Persons Who Were Members of Plaintiffs' Class in the Case Entitled James Perry Lamb v. United Security Life Company, a Corporation, Civil Action No. 10-295-2 in This Court, and Also Excluding Those Persons Who Filed Timely Requests for Exclusion From the Class in This Civil Action No. 75-100-2 v. All American Life & Financial Corporation, a Corporation, All American Life & Casualty Company, a Corporation General United Group, Incorporated, a Corporation United Security Life Company, a Corporation General United Life Insurance Company, a Corporation, Jack Schroeder Dale H. Squiers Robert L. Busch Everette E. Ballard John W. Gardiner R. Dean Ballard Charles S. Northen, Jr. And John D. Scarlett. Glenn F. Nelson, Sam Scheidler, and James E. Maloney, Suing on Behalf of Themselves, Individually, and (Pursuant to Rule 23 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and an Order Entered September 14, 1976 by Chief Judge Hanson) on Behalf of Members of a Class Consisting of All Persons Who Owned Common Stock of General United Group, Incorporated, an Iowa Corporation, Whose Common Stock Interest Was Terminated by a Purported Merger of General United Group, Incorporated, With Another Corporation on or After May 17, 1973, and the Heirs, Successors by Operation of Law, Legal Representatives, and Assigns of Such Persons, but Excluding Persons Named as in This Civil Action No. 75-100-2, and Also Excluding Those Persons Who Were Members of Plaintiffs' Class in the Case Entitled James Perry Lamb v. United Security Life Company, a Corporation, Civil Action No. 10-295-2 in This Court, and Also Excluding Those Persons Who Filed Timely Requests for Exclusion From the Class in This Civil Action No. 75-100-2 v. All American Life & Financial Corporation, a Corporation, All American Life & Casualty Company, a Corporation General United Group, Incorporated, a Corporation United Security Life Company, a Corporation General United Life Insurance Company, a Corporation, All American Life Insurance Company, a Corporation, Jack Schroeder Dale H. Squiers Robert L. Busch Everette E. Ballard John W. Gardiner R. Dean Ballard Charles S. Northen, Jr. And John D. Scarlett · Hughes v. Box
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.