Griffin v. Hilke’s Empirical Analysis
804 F.2d 1052 · 1986
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 5 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2024 · most notably Griffin v. Hilke (1987), Littrell v. Franklin (2004)
34 federal appellate · 5 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Daniels v. Williams · Pembaur v. City of Cincinnati · Tennessee v. Garner · Eichel v. New York Central Railroad
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'plainly unwarranted and clearly injurious.’”
5 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.