Havis v. Marshall County’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
2 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Erie Co v. Tompkins · Houston v. Lack · Mims v. Browning Manufacturing · Slack v. McDaniel · Hamm v. Rhone-Poulenc Rorer Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[c]aselaw construing the federal analogue of Rule 41(a) . . . is `highly persuasive when we are called upon to construe the Alabama rules.'”
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.