Wallace v. McManus’s Empirical Analysis
776 F.2d 915 · 1985
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 3 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently February 2020 · most notably The Servants of the Paraclete v. John Does I-Xvi (2000), Burkett v. Cunningham (1987)
20 federal appellate · 3 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 Hughes v. Rowe · James v. United States · Rodgers v. Watt · Montco, Inc. v. Barr · United States of America Ex Rel. Burwell L. Jones v. Alfred T. Rundle, Superintendent
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a clerical error that was none of her doing and of which she had no knowledge,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“an uncounselled incarcerated civil rights plaintiff”
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.