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← 773 FSUPP 758 - Pokrandt v. Shields

Pokrandt v. Shields’s Empirical Analysis

1991

Citation profile

9
cited by 9 later decisions
2
states following
June 2004
most recently cited

2 state decisions

Relationships

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

Relies on Younger v. Harris · Beck v. State of Ohio · Imbler v. Pachtman · Pierson v. Ray · Stump v. Sparkman

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

  1. “as a matter of law that both are part of the Unified Judicial System of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania under the supervision of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania,”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Thomas Callahan IV v. City of Philadelphia Risk Management
  2. “it is well established that state judicial entities are not persons within the meaning of S 1983,”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Thomas Callahan IV v. City of Philadelphia Risk Management

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.