LeClair v. Hart’s Empirical Analysis
800 F.2d 692 · 1986
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently April 2014 · most notably Rakovich v. Wade (1988), Pleasant v. Lovell (1989)
14 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 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. § 1291
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · Mitchell v. Forsyth · United States v. Jacobsen · Davis v. Scherer
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a clearly established and well litigated general proposition in which the case at hand merely presents a new factual wrinkle”
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.