Hale v. Harney’s Empirical Analysis
786 F.2d 688 · 1986
Citation profile
62 federal appellate · 7 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 150 later decisions — most recently June 2022 · most notably Margolis v. Ryan (1998), Schultea v. Wood (1995)
62 federal appellate · 7 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 28 U.S.C. § 1927 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on District of Columbia Court of Appeals v. Feldman · Dennis v. Sparks · Randall v. Brigham · Elliott v. Perez
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 150 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a lengthy line of decisions in our court, ... holds that litigants may not obtain review of state court actions by filing complaints about those actions in lower federal courts cast in the form of civil rights suits.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“is well grounded in fact and is warranted by existing law ... and that it is not interposed for any improper purpose....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A] “reasonable inquiry” could not have led counsel to believe the other allegations of the pleading to be well-grounded in law, asserting as they do a cause of action against the state judge which had been legally hopeless for over one hundred years and one against the other defendants that had been so at least since the Supreme Court’s 1983 decision in Feldman. Id. at 692.”
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.