Pearson v. Fair’s Empirical Analysis
808 F.2d 163 · 1986
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably Reilly v. United States (1988), Peckham v. Continental Casualty Insurance (1990)
31 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 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)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Commissioner of Internal Revenue v. Duberstein D Stanton · Cleveland Board of Education v. Loudermill · Eagle-Picher Industries, Inc. v. Liberty Mutual Insurance · Cia. Petrolera Caribe, Inc. v. Arco Caribbean, Inc. · O'Shea 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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“only conclusory findings, unsupported by subsidiary findings or by explication of the court's reasoning with respect to the relevant facts, a reviewing court simply is unable to determine whether or not those findings are clearly erroneous.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“A court is powerless to enlarge or contract the dimensions of a true consent decree except upon (i) the parties' further agreement or (ii) litigation of newly-emergent issues.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Thus, it is error to 'dispose [ ] of the merits of the controversy without affording the litigants an opportunity to present evidence ....”
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.