Carson v. Block’s Empirical Analysis
790 F.2d 562 · 1986
Citation profile
37 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently April 2003 · most notably Archie v. City of Racine (1988), Gramenos v. Jewel Companies, Inc. (1986)
37 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 7 U.S.C. § 1981A
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Pennhurst State School and Hospital v. Halderman · Paul v. Davis
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Similarly, a federal court will not require a state to follow its own law, even though adherence to governing rules is an important ingredient in both due process and equal protection under the Fourteenth Amendment.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A]n interest is 'property' only if there is an entitlement that stands or falls on the application of rules to facts. 'To the extent a request appeals to discretion rather than to rules, there is no property.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he essence of a 'collateral' order is the absence of a final judgment on a separate document.”
2 later decisions 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.