Harris v. Blake’s Empirical Analysis
798 F.2d 419 · 1986
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 20 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently September 2024 · most notably Jacobs, Visconsi & Jacobs, Co. v. City of Lawrence (1991), Davis v. Heckler (1989)
14 federal appellate · 20 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Paul v. Davis · Goss v. Lopez · Cafeteria & Restaurant Workers Union, Local 473 v. McElroy · Raphan v. United States
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When judges are asked to review the substance of a genuinely academic decision, such as this one, they should show great respect for the faculty’s professional judgment. Plainly, they may not override it unless it is such a substantial departure from accepted academic norms as to demonstrate that the person-or committee responsible did not actually exercise professional judgment.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Colorado has created the basis for a similar claim of entitlement to an education in its state college system.... The legislature has directed that these colleges `shall be open ... to all persons resident in this state' upon payment of a reasonable tuition fee.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he Due Process Clause not only provides a procedural safeguard against deprivation of life, liberty, and property but also protects substantive aspects of those interests from unconstitutional restrictions by government.”
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.